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Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

Forgive a newbie's vanity please. I'm putting together a Browncoats ping list. Conservative fans of Firefly, a great anti-Hollywood show. Those who know what that means, please respond and let me know. I'll make a list for updates.

why do people keep banning me everytime I put up interesting articles? I work for a website I think some of you are familiar with called phantirath weekly world news and each time we put somthing up on FR no matter how conservative it is it keeps getting banned. Whats the matter with it?! Damn man what are you marxist socialists communists? I just got a call this mroning from a Juwish friend of mine who said that you banned an important article about Zionism and Noam Federman and about how we were to support israel. I thought you guys...

[...] Firefly, the creation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer mastermind Joss Whedon, is the story of Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), the captain of the transport ship Serenity and his crew. The story's set in the far future, long after the Earth has been destroyed, and humanity has colonized the galaxy, terra-forming hundreds of "little Earths," most of which are no more developed than the old West. In the course of events, a civil war broke out between those who favored a strong, central government uniting the planets, and those who favored independence. Independence lost. Guess which side Mal was...

A few excerpts about Firefly: "I wanted to do a show in the future that had that kind of feeling, that really had that sense of history, the idea that it never stops, that we don't solve all our problems and have impeccably clean spaceships in the future, that we're all exactly the way we are now and were 100 years ago." The show is a departure from the "Star Trek" space opera prototype. Whedon has assured viewers that there will be no latex-faced aliens or laser battles on the show, which is set hundreds of years in the future...