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Not in my living room, Robbo! Galloway is about as welcome on my screen as…no, I’m not getting into that again. 🙂
Not sure I’d describe Galloway as good company, Alan.
But bombing the crap out of a military base ten miles from the Polish border certainly looks like an escalation to me, particularly in the light of the recent threat to weapons of destruction imports.
I can’t personally imagine what it would be like to be a WSM member in Ukraine at the moment, Alan, but what I do think is that being a potty-mouthed, arrogant 3rd Dan black belt revolutionary socialist motherfucker would easily get me killed!
I also live for socialism, whatever the cost. Chin up, eh?
It’s not very long ago that some people on this forum were saying that there would be no war in Ukraine. (Indeed, the ‘Almost-War’ article in this month’s Standard now looks risible. But hey! Even socialists aren’t always right.)
It’s a mistake, I think, to try to second-guess the behaviour of those who care nothing for working-class interests. Will Putin order the sinking of vessels carrying armaments? Who knows? All predictions in such a complex scenario are bound to be at least partly wrong.
What, in the name of Marx, is a senior emerging markets sovereign strategist? FFS. Every moment in this conflict is critical. It’s like a chess game played by demented members of the SWP. (Oh, that’s all of them.) One miscalculation and it’s game over. We need no ‘experts’ to tell us this.
Hilarious. Only the SPGB keeps me laughing! (I did wonder what responses my screen-name might evoke.)
But wait! Drunk people can be convinced of the case for socialism, no?
And you haven’t answered my question. Sometimes you can’t avoid drunk people when putting the case for the abolition of the wages system. And sometimes, with drunken shitwitted buffoons, they want to offer you violence. I’m interested in what the party line might be.
Or should I ask the Executioner Committee?
Astonishing to read of war re-enactments and bovine intercourse. It could only happen on the WSM Forum. But look, when socialists are threatened with death for refusing to take sides in the latest of capitalism’s squalid wars, what’s the party line?
I was reading Alan Johnstone’s piece on “War On War” or something…I like his work, mostly, but he said something about socialists taking up arms to defend our class interests. Let me suggest a hypothetical situation…
This whole situation kicks off big-time. The lies and propaganda are swallowed wholesale by our fellow members of the working class. I’m in the pub putting the case for socialism and a fellow member of the working class tries to shut me up because I’ve offended his deeply held belief that this is somehow his country.
He’s had a lot to drink and is so far from rational that in order to be any further from rational he’d have to step back towards rational in order to move away again.
He tells me that I’m either with him or against him. He’s going to kill me if I don’t kill him first…
What’s the party line? Can we justifiably kill for socialism?
