[Brian]

For those interested in metabolic rift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1673&v=iOs_T6c-Fsc

[Brian]

Nice one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5YiCRIujo

Dr. Gabor Maté: Antisemitism Allegations Against Jeremy Corbyn ‘COMPLETE AND UTTER NONSENSE!’

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[Brian]

Communism, Socialism: Any Difference? 
Binay Sarkar

A lively debate on this article here: https://www.quora.com/What-do-modern-communists-think-of-the-USSR/answer/Marshal-Solomon?__filter__=&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=4795581117&comment_id=101515833&comment_type=2

[Brian]

LBird wrote:

Humans are analogue.'Digital' is a social product of the bourgeoisie. It follows from their attempt to 'mathematise nature'. This reduces our product 'organic nature' to a 'countable' world of discrete individual bits, an ideology which reflects the 'individualist' world of the bourgeoisie.PS. A very interesting article, the best that I've read in the Socialist Standard.

I beg to differ. 'Digital' is an economic product of capitalism.  The bourgeoisie produce nothing other than fulfilling the role of being the personification of capital.

[Brian]

The street stall yesterday was pretty good.  We seem to be an attraction for Canadian's with a £5 donation from our first conversation.  Handed out a couple of dozen leaflets and several back issues of the Socialist Standard.  Noticable not so many conversations.Two comrades handed out leaflets at the Suffragettes march in Cardiff today.

[Brian]

Yesterday 2nd June we had a excellent reception with the stall.  Had many conversations, several back issues of the Socialist Standard handed out and a pamphlet bought and paid for with C$5.  Lots of leaflets taken.It was decided that seeing we're on a roll that we try an experiment next Saturday 9th June between 1pm and 3pm – weather permitting.

[Brian]

patreilly wrote:

Brian wrote:

So I can double check could you put up the link to your stats?

 When I go to my stats the link is simplyhttps://www.quora.com/stats But this url also takes me to my stats https://www.quora.com/stats?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=2539834279&time=last_7_days bit confusing

Thanks for that. Yes when I use your link I also end up in my own stats.  Probably to do with Quora's Privacy policy that the stats gathered on users is for their information only.  This being the case I'll cease providing the links and just provide the number of views recorded and the answers distributed.

[Brian]

patreilly wrote:

Brian, when I click on the links you have posted I get my own stats which is not as impressive as yours I don't think we can veiw yours regretably; unless I am missing something.

So I can double check could you put up the link to your stats?

[Brian]

alanjjohnstone wrote:

Is this concerning us that we may need to update our Privacy Policy and our Terms of use and Special Conditions of use to comply with the new regulations on personal data protection (GDPR).

No this wont affect us at the mo.  However, it will affect a 'Buddy system' at a very low level in regards to consent of preferences and profiling and their use between Buddies.  This can be mitigated by only exchanging names and email addresses between Buddies.

[Brian]

Answers you wrote were viewed 10,983 times this week.  https://www.quora.com/stats?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=2539834279&time=last_7_days

[Brian]

13,000+ people were sent your answer in the Quora Digest. Is Marx’s theory of surplus value still relevant?https://www.quora.com/Is-Marx-s-theory-of-surplus-value-still-relevant/answer/Brian-Johnson-429?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=2490122418

[Brian]

Answers you wrote were viewed 10,380 times this week. https://www.quora.com/stats?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=2451549628&time=last_7_days

[Brian]

"There is little reason to imagine that climate change won’t break the modern food system. Worse, industrial food production is a breeding ground for pandemic disease, and reasoned analysis suggests that the kind of concentrated animal-feeding operations that bring us cheap meat will also bring viruses that could decimate the human population. Again, this is nothing new. Just as early-modern climate change and the plague brought about the end of feudalism and the beginning of capitalism, so we face a future in which climate change and a vulnerability to big systemic shocks augur a dramatic end for capitalism’s ecology."So what happened to class struggle?

[Brian]

jondwhite wrote:

Are Cardiff Marxist Group anything to do with Marxist World who left SPEW? If not, why did Cardiff Marxist Group leave?

I only had a very brief conversation with them lasting around three minutes during which they said they had done their homework on the SPGB and were interested in meeting with us.  They did say they had left SPEW over disagreement on the class struggle.  No mention was made of 'Marxist World'.

[Brian]

alanjjohnstone wrote:

https://cardiffmarxistgroup.com/about-2/You have your work cut out for you but comradely debate and discussion can go a long way to influence those who are receptive to different ideas

Which is the only realistic approach to adopt in the battle for ideas.  By all accounts this group is made up of ex-members of SPEW.

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