The Workers of the World aren’t uniting with you when you’ve only 817 Twitter followers!
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Vin wrote:jondwhite wrote:'The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.'
Hence the point of World Socialist Movement
Isn't it the same point as 'The Workers of the World aren't uniting with you when you've only 817 Twitter followers!'?
jondwhite wrote:'The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.'But… 'facts' can't be 'changed', can they? Otherwise, to this way of thinking, they wouldn't be 'facts'.Marx is correct – 'philosophers have only interpreted the world'.Our task, as worker-philosophers, is to both interpret and change the world.That revolutionary task requires both ideas and something which can be changed, both theory and practice.Changed interpretation of the so-called 'facts' is the guide to actually changing them in practice.In short, new theory put into practice produces new facts.Thus, 'facts' have a temporal origin, in a society's thinking and activity, and can be ended, with the production of new 'facts' to replace earlier, now outdated, 'facts'.'Truth', whether ideal, material, maths or physics, has a history, and a social producer.In a democratic society, as socialism is claimed to be, how can anything produced by humans not be under democratic control?Unless one starts from the presumption that 'workers' are too busy, stupid, uninterested, incapable, etc., to change their world, both natural and social. If that assumption is true, even democracy is a non-starter. And so, we're back to an elite, in science and politics…
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On the 27th. of April, the opening post quotes, "The workers of the World aren't uniting with you when you've only 817 Twitter followers."Fast forward ten days and with a little more action on our Twitter Account, we now have 924 Followers. An increase of 107 Followers in 10 days. If we use this account wisely, we might yet make this reporter eat his words!
northern light wrote:, we now have 924 Followers. An increase of 107 Followers in 10 days.This is the direct result of 'following' others. We need to follow everyone and get the message across.
As an individual user – I do not have an official SPGB account (not that I would want one they can eat my socks
lol – I am now followed by 'unified left' . I have been 'follow me, look at me and pick me' for a while now. and now my tweets are seen by their followers. What a sell out! Expulsion! The Party, for as long as I've been a Member/sympathiser, has always been backwards, in coming forwards in using/accepting new technology/means of propogating "our" case!Vin, keep doing what you are doing and "run" with it mate. You have mine, and I suspect the Branches support.Up the workers!!!!!!1
Thanks marra,I intend to.
Roneo great in the 80s . We need to use social media more. There is some great work being done on facebook by gnome and Brian and others and on twitter by @officialspgb but we need to expand on it.
jondwhite wrote:Is this a fair comment'The Workers of the World aren't uniting with you when you've only 817 Twitter followers!'The twitter account has more than doubled its followers since May. Good work cde(s)
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