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Despite the disagreements, L Bird, I’m glad to hear you’re alive and kicking and haven’t succumbed to the virus.
I would have said affectionately “shine on you crazy diamond” but I didn’t, just in case you thought it was insulting (which it wouldn’t have been)My view as a football fan is pretty close to that put forward by Bobby Robson:
“ What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”My first trip to St James was just like that. It’s hard to believe that a friendly match in 1967 would engender such feelings, but it was very like that. Ironically my football living father, who took me to that match was a Sunderland supporter!
To précis the previous replies, if a minority attempt to disrupt the majority and the overthrow of capitalism through violent means, we would organise a forceful response based on delegated, capable group of those willing and able to take on that role. As I have said before, real Socialists are not sheep, we do not need a leader to organise our selves and take necessary action.
In terms of who would take part in the “capable group” I strongly suspect that you won’t be part of that group so you can change your soiled undergarment, go back to the frat house and return to watching re runs of “friends”.
Another example of the Chinese State’s great concern for the toiling masses is shown by CNTC.
The Chinese tobacco industry is a powerful state-owned enterprise. The commercial arm called the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC) is managed by the government arm, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. CNTC is the largest tobacco company in the world, producing 40 per cent of the global cigarette supply. The company has a monopoly in China to supply more than 300 million Chinese smokers and makes vast profits for the Chinese state.
Rather attempt to develop programmes to stop smoking, CNTC has a long history of sponsorship of schools and educational programmes, the programmes used are advertised with slogans “genius is from hard work, tobacco helps you excel”.
The profit motive at work again.
Over the years I have met many of these pseudo revolutionaries like TS, full of blood curdling slogans about violent revolutionary actions, but when it all kicks off they are nowhere to be be seen. One whiff of any real trouble TS and their ilk fill their pants and are off hiding under the bed.
Like the pretend revolutionaries of the left who bleated on about offering full support to the Provisional IRA, Happy enough to sing rebels songs in the pub on a Friday night, but somehow they never manage to show their solidarity by getting themselves over to the Falls Road or the Creggan and get themselves an armalite.
Same with the miners strike, full of support to the miners, didn’t see many of them at the Battle of Orgreave!
The most radical action that TS has ever undertaken was quoting Monty Python sketches to his mates in his frat house.
The SPGB has never argued that spontaneous risings will bring about Socialism, quite the opposite. We disagree with your need for leaders (by the way is your Marvel alter ego “Sheep boy). Unlike you we have the same view as Engels
“ The time of surprise attacks, of revolutions carried through by small conscious minorities at the head of masses lacking consciousness is past. Where it is a question of a complete transformation of the social organisation, the masses themselves must be in on it, must themselves have grasped what is at stake, what they are fighting for, body and soul.’”“Lenin and Stalin made unbelievably spectacularly bad
judgements about at least the following people…”Like I’ve said, I’m not much interested in the trials. But saying Lenin and Stalin should have known the listed names were traitors is ridiculous. Sukarno should have known Suharto was a traitor, Caesar that Brutus was a traitor, etc? You think traitors don’t exist?
When you lead your revolution (Lol) I’m sure there won’t be a single traitor. You will never misjudge anothers’ character because you are a Marxist superhero, armed, no doubt, with a lasso of truth and x-ray vision that can see into a man’s very soul. Am I right? Come on, I’m right, right?
Is the sound I can hear accross the wide Atlantic, the noise of a desperate Maoist apologist, clutching straws?
For your information, we don’t have any need or use for leaders, we are a fully democratic organisation made up of class conscious revolutionary Socialists. We don’t need to lead or be led. Leaders are for sheep.
I think your understanding of politics relies more on Marvel Comics than the works of Marx and Engels.
TS, If you were correct about the Moscow show trials (which I do not think for one moment that you are) by your admission all of these high level Bolsheviks were appointed to high position and were highly endorsed at one point or another by either Lenin and or Stalin.
Again if you are correct, this would mean that according to you, your two heroes, Lenin and Stalin made unbelievably spectacularly bad judgements about at least the following people:
Nikolai Bukharin (1888 – 1938)
Grigori Zinoviev (1883 – 1936)
Lev Kamenev (1883 – 1936)
Béla Kun (1886 – 1938)
Alexei Rykov (1881 – 1938)
Karl Radek (1885 – 1939)
Mikhail Tomsky (1880 – 1936)
Martemyan Ryutin (1890 – 1937)
Ivan Smirnov (1881–1936)
Ivar Smilga (1892 – 1938)
Arkady Rosengolts (1889 – 1938) —
Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886 – 1937)
Aleksandr Smirnov (1877 – 1938)
Nikolay Krestinsky (1883 – 1938)
Alexander Shliapnikov (1885 – 1937)
Andrei Bubnov (1883 – 1938)
Varvara Yakovleva (1884 – 1941)
Alexander Shotman (1880 – 1937)
Alexander Beloborodov (1891 – 1938)
Lev Karakhan (1889-1937)In fact of the 139 members and candidates of the Central Committee who were elected at the 17th Congress, 98 persons, i.e., 70 per cent, were arrested and shot (mostly in 1937-1938). Out of 1,966 delegates with either voting or advisory rights, 1,108 persons were arrested on charges of anti-revolutionary crimes.
You don’t need to take my word for the names and numbers of “traitors”, this information does not come from me, but rather from the minutes of The 18th Congress of the Russian Communist Party which was held during 10–21 March 1939 in Moscow and The Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which was held from 5 to 14 October 1952. You are welcome to check my figures they are figures agreed on by Stalin and signed off by the Central Committe of the Russian Communist Party.
If you are correct, then your evidence would show Lenin and Stalin must be the worst political leaders and worse judges of character ever born.
AJ “so it will be easy for you to copy and paste the relevant facts that are irrefutable.”
TS – And why would I get into arguments about a criminal trial with you, Alan? You are a dishonest interlocutor.
TS is sidestepping questions, yet again.
Your fooling nobody (with the possible exception of yourself), it is clear you cannot produce the evidence you claim to have, in the same way you cannot explain why anyone should trust the Chinese “communist” Party’s claim that they will have achieved “full communism” by 2120, given their backtracking on their claims about “underdeveloped socialism”.
It appears, my friend that you are full of it.
Leaving aside your attempts to distract the issue.
With regards to the question of the Chinese “communist” Party declaration that Capitalism in China had been superseded by “underdeveloped Socialism” and the later admission that capitalism has been “reintroduced”, you have stated that “In the real world compromises must be made and challenges overcome. Mistakes will inevitably be made.”
Given that you agree that the Chinese “communist” Party made “mistakes” when declaring that “under developed socialism” would supersede capitalism and given that this mistake was one which related to the overarching basis of the Chinese economic system, why then should anyone believe the Chinese “communist” Party when it now states that “full communism” will be in place by the year 2120?
BD – “So can you please explain why did the Chinese “communist” Party introduce a system which, by their definition, was less effective than their claimed system of underdeveloped socialism?”
Ts “Unlike you and your pathetic band of misfits, sorry party, the CPC is actually responsible for improving the lives of 1.4 billion people. Their party is one of the few in human history to have ever made the attempt to bring about a socialist society. There is no manual for doing so. They operate in the real world not the utopian fantasy world you envision.
In the real world compromises must be made and challenges overcome. Mistakes will inevitably be made. As will advancements. Building socialism is a process. You will never understand this. Instead you live in la-la land with your fellow naval gazers believing yourself keeper of the holy flame of true Marxism. Such arrogance.
While the Chinese are busy building socialism you and your party are busy manufacturing liberals. You are obscurantist, broken brained memes of the sectarian left. Instead of good faith criticism for other socialist projects you only condemn. You are the enemy of Marxists everywhere and the ally of reactionaries everywhere. Your party is worthy of nothing but contempt and derision. You are hypocrites all and what’s more, haven’t a sense of humor between the lot of you. You are boring. LOL”
So I’ll take that’s a long winded way of you saying that you can’t answer the question?
In terms of power generation, all bets might be off in less than a decade-
“A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.From the BBC News Website
US lab stands on threshold of key nuclear fusion goal
A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.The National Ignition Facility uses a powerful laser to heat and compress hydrogen fuel, initiating fusion.An experiment suggests the goal of “ignition”, where the energy released by fusion exceeds that delivered by the laser, is now within touching distance.
Harnessing fusion, the process that powers the Sun, could provide a limitless, clean energy source……
An experiment carried out on 8 August yielded 1.35 megajoules (MJ) of energy – around 70% of the laser energy delivered to the fuel capsule. Reaching ignition means getting a fusion yield that’s greater than the 1.9 MJ put in by the laser.
“This is a huge advance for fusion and for the entire fusion community,” Debbie Callahan, a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which hosts NIF, told BBC News.
As a measure of progress, the yield from this month’s experiment is eight times NIF’s previous record, established in Spring 2021, and 25 times the yield from experiments carried out in 2018.
“The pace of improvement in energy output has been rapid, suggesting we may soon reach more energy milestones, such as exceeding the energy input from the lasers used to kick-start the process,” said Prof Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College London.”
If (and it is big if) fusion reactors prove workable large scale very clear power production will be possible.
If only we had a sane system of producing and distributing the fruits created by the work of the many thousands of workers who cooperated together to reach that goal.
BD“It is interesting that you have still not answered the question about the “reintroduction” of capitalism”
TS- Rubbish, I’ve answered the question multiple times. They’re developing the productive forces. This approach is consistent with Marxism.
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Supersede
– Cambridge dictionary definition -“to replace something older, less effective, or less important or official:”
Why then was it necessary for the Chinese “communist” Party to reintroduce a system (capitalism) that it claimed it had superseded (i.e. by definition replaced by a more effective system) in order to develop the productive forces? If it had introduced a more effective system it would not need to use capitalism to build up productive sources, as by their own definition “underdeveloped socialism” was more effective than capitalism.
So can you please explain why did the Chinese “communist” Party introduce a system which, by their definition, was less effective than their claimed system of underdeveloped socialism?
