h.moss@swansea.ac.uk
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The trouble with what Rubio and one of our contributors say is that it seeks to find some kind of rationality in the words and actions of the Trump adminstration, when it’s clear that, even from a capitalist point of view, what it’s doing and saying has no clear rationality or logic. As for Roger Boyes, well that seems largely the fervid imaginings of a journalist who needs to find something to write.
‘In saying that the war could have been avoided Trump has virtually admitted that it was provoked by the actions of previous US administrations who pursued the policy of expanding NATO right up to the frontiers of ex-USSR Russia. The expansion to include Ukraine turned out to be an expansion too far.
The alternative explanation that the war was caused simply by a mad dictator bent on expanding his domain has been shown to wrong and those who accepted it have been left with egg on their face.’
But this is to lend credence to the analysis and actions of the maniacal leader that is Trump.
Okay, I take your point. But difficult to say everything in 130 words (it wasn’t my ‘snippet’ by the way) and at least it gives material for discussion.
Can it be explained how the current website ‘snippet’ is ‘low-hanging fruit? By the way it’s open to anyone to contribute to the regular snippets feature. Anyone who doesn’t like some of them is free to contribute. Contact Ann French (ann.french@bigduck.org.uk), the coordinator.
Poor analogy. It’s no better because it takes place in small clubs. Elvis wasn’t much of a guitarist anyway.
It defeats me that anyone can imagine that boxing (i.e. two human beings in a ring trying to knock each other senseless) could be a part of the civilised society that socialism will be. It’s the capitaalist equivalent of the Roman arena. In socialism we won’t have the arena and we won’t have boxing. If that’s judgemental, so be it. Some things at least we should be able to make judgements on.
“Where I think the party fails is that there is no serious examination of problems that will be encountered under socialism, particularly in the short term, such as getting resources to poor countries, and how to create alternatives in areas where dangerous work will no longer be done. Which, for what it is worth, is one of the reasons why I left the party.”
Strangest reason for leaving the Party I’ve heard. If that’s the only problem, why not rejoin?
I can’t see the advert on page 3, nor can I see the letter referred to on the letters’ page. Is this the right edition of the newspaper?
