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LBird wrote:jondwhite wrote:I've invited Lbird!http://philosophyinpubs.co.uk/
I went to a PIP meeting once, about 10 years ago…… the chair was an ex-CP guy, who I'd had, err…, political differences with, during the anti-Poll Tax campaign, when he was the chair of that, too.It didn't go well.At least my son, who was with me, thought it was funny. We didn't go again.
I find it hard to believe, L Bird upsetting someone, is this the same polite, charming, modest and entertaining L Bird that we have witnessed on this forum, surely not.Your son must have had an interesting childhood though? I have a mental picture of him quietly eating a packet of Monster Munch whilst you and his physics teacher are kicking lumps out of each other in the playground, during his year 9 Parents' Evening.
jondwhite wrote:So have they abandoned entryism in respect of the Labour party?I think they are busy entering and trying to take control of the Skegness and District Amateur Dramatic and Allotment Society, and then plan to turn that into a Revolutionary Vanguard Party, in preparation for their planned seizure of state power sometime in 2018.However rumour is that there has already been a split between the "Dramaticist" element in the Skegness group of the IMT and the "Horticulturites" in the same group, with both sides claiming the support of different factions in the Ecuadorian Tendancy for Workers Control (Marxist Leninist). The ETWC (ML) have two members, they Mr Pedro and Mrs Maria Garcia-Lopez of 27 Simon Bolivar Avenue,Guayaquil, who are said to now be sleeping in separate bedrooms.My sources report that it is likely that both factions are likely to launch their own Internationals, claiming each to be the reconstituted 4th international, sadly however there appear to be further difficulties in the Dramaticist group with one side claiming that men dressing up as pantomime dames is a misognistic ritual that supports the Patriarchal status quo, whilst the other side claim that there opponents are homophobic mono culturalists who deny the right of experssion to oppressed minorities.further news will be added as soon as I get it, but I would expect a noticable fall in the quality of vegetables in the annual Allotment Society Vegetable show this year.
irwellian wrote:Who is this "we" you are talking about? The British government? The capitalist class? The workers? As for "destroying the country"… whose country exactly? Theresa May's? Richard Brandon's? The guy who owns Sports Direct? The workers have no country.This whole argument presupposes that migratory patterns are some kind of natural phenomena and that those seeking to migrate will continue to wish to do so in a Socialist society. Remove the cause of the poverty that drives migration and most people would not wish to migrate. Most migrants I've spoken to would love to have stayed where they were, if it wasn't for war, poverty, oppressive regimes, etc.
On the same theme I don't know if anyone has come across this site:https://communistleaguetampa.org/points-of-unity/
Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:TK:"Typical bloody Trotskyist, taking power undemocratically, and then ordering everyone aroound, it's like Kronstadt all over again!!!!!"Isn't it time for your medication?
Another Trotskyist rouse, label all dissent as mental illness, we'll all be off to the gulag!
Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:mcolome1:"I think everybody around here is off topic because the original post was Marx and philosophy and it was changed to a topic that we covered several months ago, and you are repeating the same argumentation."May I suggest you take that up with the moderators?Until then, it's off-topic.
Typical bloody Trotskyist, taking power undemocratically, and then ordering everyone aroound, it's like Kronstadt all over again!!!!!
Has anyone ever seen L Bird and Rosa Lichtenstein in the same room together? Could it be that they are…………..?
Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:Tim:"We would then have an endless source of hot air for power generation and bullshit for fertiliser, which could act as a demonstration of the possibility of free access in a socialist society."So, other than abuse, you dont have anything useful to add.If what I have to say is such b.s., then someone as knowledgeable as your good self should find it laughably easy to show where I go wrong, shouldn't you?The fact that you resort merely to abuse suggests to me that describing you as "ignorant" might be to praise you too highly.And I say that with all due disrespect.
I've obviously hit a nerve there, haven't I. Perhaps it's a nerve that's been hit before. It seems to me (which is why I use the traditional working class tactic of taking the piss) that you (and L Bird) take yourselves just a little too seriously.Perhaps I can put it another way. When you are being evicted from your home, when you are about to lose you job, when you are faced with the news that you will probably have to work until you are in your seventies before you can afford to even think about retirement, when you lie awake worried about debts, when you cannot make the bills balance at the end of the month, in short when capitalism is shitting all over you. Philosophy , the dialectic, epistemology, etc. are not the topics that fill your mind.The traditional Trotskyist/Leninist approach of producing long winded tracts about angels on pin heads, designed to do nothing but bolster the egos of the authors, does nothing but obscure the real Socialist task, that is putting forward the case for a Socialist transformation of society.If the hot air, you and your fellow Trotskyist obscurantists, put into discussing arcane disputes from the past, could be used effectively in communicating the urgent need to change the social system which is destroying our planet, killing our children and blighting the lives of millions of humans, then perhaps we would be closer to achieving that goal.All due disrespect? I take your disrespect as a badge of honour. You mistake lack of interest in what you are saying, with lack of knowledge of the subject matter. I have the former, but not the latter. However if it makes me ignorant, to view your petty self esteem building activities as contemptuous (I mean calling yourself Rosa Lichtenstein, no signs of bigging yourself up there, is there), I plead ignorance, glorious, glorious ignorance. Yours for the revolution
Young Master Smeet wrote:Wow, what we need is Lbird to join this thread and we could watch the charge of the hobby horse cavalry.Appropriately enough, the same passage is antidote to both:"My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite."So, Marx, in his own unambiguous published words, has a dialectic method.Short version: he looked at things in thir relationships and how they develop.If we could get Rosa Licthenstien and L Bird into a room together, we could create a pro-epistemology/anti epistemology generator (a bit like the matter anti matter generators in Star Trek). We would then have an endless source of hot air for power generation and bullshit for fertiliser, which could act as a demonstration of the possibility of free access in a socialist society.
To Paraphrase the above comment from Wez:Why do you end your posts with 'The emancipation of the working class will be the act of the workers themselves'?When you also state on your website "I count myself as a Marxist, a Leninist and a Trotskyist"?Will it be the workers who emancipate themselves or a Leninist/Trotskyist vanguard? How about replaceing Max Eastman's statement on the banner on the top of your site with this statement: Leninsm is like a mental disease; you can't know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you have got it — Tim Kilgallon
Bob Andrews wrote:Just returned from a brief cut-price sojourn in Alicante which was heaving with retired fellow British proletarians escaping the rigours of a cruel austerity. You couldn't get into the hotel reception for motability scooters. Bit different from when my old dad were in Spain fighting in the civil war – for Franco. Claimed to have bagged himself a couple of anarchists. Any road up, I thought I'd log on and wish all members of the SPGB and Reconstituted SPGB a belated Happy New Year.your father sounds like a charming, thoughtful and humane man, characteristics that you have clearly inherited.
here's one for L Bird!http://existentialcomics.com/comic/143
Major McPharter wrote:I remember well the north/east meetings with some fantastic debates with the mighty Steve Coleman speaking.Good to hear from you Harley. It would be great to get some similar meetings going in the North East again, going to try and get another branch meeting organised at the end of the month if your able to attend?YFSTim
