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O what an overwhelming tide of ungovernable indifference this evokes.
Which hand did the Buddha use to wipe his cosmic ass?Socialist man will…’hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner’…and visit the lavvy before retiring.
There is an article in today’s Daily Telegraph about Ukraine running out of men to fight. The Guardian and BBC run stories on draft-dodgers. If the Scotsman were still with us he might argue that the public over here is being prepared for the introduction of NATO troops into the war. Of course it will be merely in an ‘advisory capacity’ – at first.
I logged on to me bank account last night and there was nothing in it. So, yes, I believe in nothingness.
One is reminded of those great working-class anti-war movements of the past such as, er…um..nope, can’t think of one.
The fact is, the working class have always supported war, or at least made no effort to oppose it.
Anti-war organisations are formed by the ‘middle-class Guardian-reader’ type.
The working-class has always been bellicose. And would you want to give such people a choice of when to go to war and who with.If by ‘Essex boy’ Lizzie means ‘philistine’ I’ll have her know I can recite plenty of poems from memory ( where else?). Admittedly they are all about young ladies from various parts of the world ( China, Nantucket, Biarritz, Ealing etc). I like the poem that begins ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it tells you something, and the untitled classic that begins: ‘Sir Issac Newton told us why, an apple falls down from the sky…’ warning the proletariat to wear the proper protective clothing ( hard hats and boots) at work.
At Stowe we had a boy in our House commit suicide. The House was assembled and asked if anyone could suggest why he was driven to do such a thing. After a few moments reflection a small boy at the front (not me) put his hand up and said: could it have been the food,sir?
School meals are an abomination.
The Labour Party just can’t bring itself to admit that capitalism is a cancer infecting humanity and socialism is the, uh…what cures cancer?
Last time I were in Coutts they came straight out and asked me if I advocated the abolition of the wages system. Boxed clever and told them ‘No’ (even though I do). Suckers!
LEW knows whereof he speaks. If I remember right he reviewed Paul Thomas’ Karl Marx and the Anarchists way back in the 1980’s. The book dealt with Marx’s dealings with Stirner, Proudhon and Bakunin. I think that review got LEW into a bit bother with the SPGB anarchists.
But it was a long time ago so the old memory might be letting me down.
