The BBC and the SPGB
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I should imagine the quote was truncated and distorted due to unskilled and hurried editing and/or writing, or lack of understanding of nuance, rather than out of malice. This is how Britain's best-selling financial weekly, MoneyWeek, reported the news:Irony of the weekA fringe political party which believes that money should be abolished has turned out to have a significant amount of cash and assets. The Socialist Party of Great Britain was founded in 1904, has just 300 members, and fielded ten candidates in the election this year, all of whom lost their deposits. However, it also owns a property on Clapham High Street in south London, which it bought for £3,000 in 1951. The property boom in London means it is now thought to be worth around £900,000. Along with cash reserves of more than £450,000, the party is sitting on well over £1m. In the same issue:Imagine a world without moneytakingnote.blogs.nytimes.comIn these times of doom and gloom, Star Trek can seem “kind of quaint”, says Anna North. After all, the TV show, especially The Next Generation series, takes place in a time when, essentially, “everything has worked out”. It’s precisely this that interests Manu Saadia, author of Trekonomics, a forthcoming book about the economics of the Star Trek universe. In the Star Trek system, money no longer exists and anything you want can be made in a replicator, essentially for free. When everything is free, says Saadia, objects will no longer be status symbols. Success will be measured in achievements, not in money: “You need to build up your reputation, you need to be a fantastic person, you need to be the captain.” People will work hard to reach those goals, even though they don’t need money to live. In a time of rising inequality and stagnating wages, a world where everyone’s needs are met and people only work if they feel like it seems pretty far away. But Saadia reckons a post-scarcity economy is actually within reach. Wealthy pensioners today have arrived early. Watching Star Trek might inspire us to hit the warp drive and catch them up.
Stuart, did you see this Socialist Standard article from 1982?http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/06/money-must-go-1982.htmlI don't know about yourself but I grew up in a household where The Sun was one of the newspapers of choice, so it was funny to think that there was some 'full communism' in its pages, hidden away in one of its regular comic strips.
I hadn't seen it but it's great, thanks! I must admit that my trembling hands were not reaching out for the cartoons about communism in The Sun, but for other features, including that cartoon strip where the woman always took her kit off. That for some reason was just as exciting as the non-cartoon women taking their kit off on earlier pages. But then I guess this isn't the forum for such revelations!
Aah, you were more of a George and Lynne cartoon aficianado? I'd totally forgotten about that cartoon strip until your post. Does that qualify as a Proustian moment?
Andy Capp was a favorite of mine. Iol I knew of Jack Dunckley, the cartoonist, he lived in an apartment over looking and regularly played golf, at Hendon Golf Club.
I think that there was an attempt to purchase an A3 colour copier, for HO?Seems that the EC, were against it? Cost no object, now?
On the General Election, I posted in a thread, that the Party, had 10 candidates standing. I couldn't believe that someone replied; " that it was money down the drain"? Come on £450,000 cash in hand jeez Of course, I mentioned the valuable publicity! That it wasn't about the money! GCHQ possibly?
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james19 wrote:I think that there was an attempt to purchase an A3 colour copier, for HO?Seems that the EC, were against it? Cost no object, now?Misinformation, I'm afraid.See here:https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SPINTCOM/conversations/messages/16307Item: iv. 2.b.vii. and Motion 9.
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