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And continue the real life solutions such as the ones Kier Starmer has put forward, i.e. – “I’ll just magically create economic growth”
p.s. don’t spend the extra 33p a day you will have to play with due to the generosity of Octopus, straight away. A mate of mine (who usually gets it right), works in wholesale energy sales and he says the reduction is short lived and prices will go up again steeply very shortly.
Might be good idea to lock your price in now if you can and then you can, with confidence, deliberate on how you are going to splash out on your 33p.
I might suggest a Curly Wurly (much diminished in size and quality since the 1970s, in my opinion) available at 25p from Azda (but you’ll have to walk there, as you don’t have enough left over for the bus)
You must be proud of being bought off by a Curly Wurly
The question isn’t what the SPGB have achieved, the real question is, what has been achieved by all of the so called socialists who told us there’s was the way to the promised land?
The Fabians and the soft leftist have told us for decades that to elicit change we need to be in government and that capitalism will disappear like the Cheshire Cat’s grin. (Looks to me like the Cheshire Cat has only stopped grinning because he’s busy pissing his pants laughing)
The “hard left” have told us that we need to promise reforms to show that capitalism can’t be reformed and this will lead the Working Class to throw off reforms and become revolutionary, that’s worked well, not.
Perhaps more importantly, what would have happened if those who claimed that they agreed with the idea of common ownership and “from each according to their ability to each according to their need”, had actually joined us to campaign for such a thing?
The reformists claim that they have achieved a welfare state and progressive social changes, yet if you look at The Republic of Ireland, it has all of those things yet always been governed by centre Right governments.
It looks suspiciously like all the reforms that have been achieved are reforms that benefit the accumulation of capital.
As to Phil Hammond’s article, he should have asked “what has 100 years of chasing every bandwagon available achieved for him and has like”.
Then we have the Trots deride us for our achievements over 120 years, good job for them Trotskyism has been such a roaring fucking success!
As a rather disinterested bystander of the election pantomime, at times the downright stupidity of some of the “leading” politicians seems incredible. With Ed Davey spending his time on water slides and other stunts, etc.
But Sunak seems to have an absolutely incredible knack for dropping himself in the dog shite.
He’s just told everyone that he is “not being investigated about betting” even though no one has ever suggested that he had been.
If you have deny doing something before anyone has suggested that you had, people automatically assume you did it.
What a berk
Just watched Gorgeous George in his election broadcast. Red, white and blue rosettes and a slogan of “make Great Britain Great”. It’s the love child of Nigel Farage and Harry Pollitt!
Doing comedy quips now Lizzy, don’t give up the day job. What’s the day job again Lizzy? I have a vague recollection that you may have mentioned being an Astrophysicist. Wonder if your dad was a toolmaker?
You say that people are reluctant to try a completely untried and untested alterative, but any progress in society has been untried and untested. This has not been a bar to progress in the past, why should it be a bar in the future.
As to the idea that what we are proposing is so alien to everything they have experienced in their lives thus far, I would dispute this. There are lots of evidence of people working together on a mutual basis for the benefit of others, trades union activiites, allotment societies, food banks, sports clubs, youth groups, volutary organisations, etc. etc.
Since the start of humanity, the whole human experience is one of people working together to work mutually for their own benefit (presumably with the singular exception of Keith Joseph)
Lizzie45 “Those changes were not the result of the conscious actions of the world’s population. How could they be? There were no means in place (videre licet, universal suffrage), to record the collective will, even in the extremely improbable likelihood one even existed.”
DJP – “You’ve made a silly slip up here. Something existing is not dependent on the possibility of it being recorded or measured. Obviously you know that.
But anyhow, a shift in the use of technology (BTW I can’t see how that can occur ‘unconsciously’, without people being aware of it), is different from a political shift in how a society organises itself. Technological determinism isn’t a useful way to understand politics.”
DJP, I don’t disagree with you, but actually Lizzy45 didn’t actually ask for an example of a “shift on how society organises itself” as DJP has referred to, she actually asked for an example “where the mode of production/way of life was changed by the conscious actions of the world’s population”. That was the question posed, it didn’t directly ask for an understanding of politics and it didn’t imply technological determinism, I merely answered the question she posed
Changes in the “mode of production/way of life” did undoubtedly take place during the development of the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and especially during the development of the agricultural revolution (aka the Neolithic revolution) i.e. the move from hunter gather to agricultural revolution, so I am correct in giving the answer I gave in this area. If Lizzy45 thinks that they were not conscious moves, this would mean that she thinks that these moves occurred in an unconscious way and I don’t think even Freud would make that kind of claim!
Is she claiming that groups of hunter gathers just went off to sleep one night and then woke up in a ploughed field saying “fuck me, we’re farmers, how the hell did that happen?”
So really, if Lizzie45 asks a stupid question, you can’t blame me for giving a stupid answer. Perhaps she should ask questions about astro physics, I believe she may have mentioned that she is an astro physicist (irony alert)
Lizzie45 – “Provide one example where the mode of production/way of life was changed by the conscious actions of the world’s population.”
Yes, the move from stone age production to bronze age manufacturing and then to Iron Age production were large scale changes in the mode of production/way of life. You could also use the agricultural revolution as an example.
Following that logic the human species would never have moved out of Africa. The whole history of human development (good and bad) is littered with examples of humans doing exactly the opposite to what you are suggesting.
I don’t know if this is a German/Austrian saying but it’s ironic if it is.
Keep trying to bend history to fit your views.
I’ve got to say that judging a planetary population of 7.5 billion people by the reactions of 2 people is a more than a little unscientific. Reich would be proud of you.
To be honest I very rarely watch the news for just the same reason. It doesn’t mean that I’m unaware of what’s going on, it is impossible to escape from it, what with radio news, twitter feeds, messaging, etc.
It doesn’t mean that I don’t recognise the need for change, no doubt many others feel the same way.
The problem is that we are “educated” to believe that if people all behave in a particular way, it’s because we’re all thinking the same things. People often behave in the same way for completely different reasons, something Reich could well have benefited from recognising
You might find FC Ball’s biography of Tressell “One of the Damned” very interesting.
Although, I believe, some of the information Ball put forward is disputed, it is a very interesting read.
There is also the biography of Tressell’s daughter, Tressell and the Late Kathleen: A Biographical Memoir and a Message of Hope, which adds even more information
