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The best analysis of Rod Liddle was Will Self's review of Rod Liddle's bookhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/22/selfish-whining-monkeys-rod-liddle-review

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The worst kind of apologists for capitalism are ex-lefties who think they can now confidently write off 'socialism'.

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i don't think there is a mechanism for tables here as such, but what role would democracy play in your 'alt-socialism'? You don't mention it under 'state', 'authority' or even 'political unit', even in your description of our definition of socialism!Also what does it mean to describe 'human type' as wolves?

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Unfortunately I am unlikely to be able to deliver the print-on-demand 2018 calendar as offered in EC minutes. I might have a go if there is any interest expressed here in ordering it, but it is already the end of January.

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My condolences. I would be interested in some of the old WSM lit but am not in the Glasgow area.

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This is supposed to be in the comments section but it wouldn't let me comment as the title was too long. Please move it back

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An article here now hiddenhttps://ravingsofaradicalvagabond.noblogs.org/post/2018/01/15/an-investigation-into-red-brown-alliances/Commented

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Vanessa Beeley is listed as an Associate Editor of 21st Century Wire on its About section (which also lists Andrew Korybko and Marwa Osman as special contributors). 21st Century Wire claims to be an “independent hyper blog offering bold news”. However, its features editor and founder is Patrick Henningsen, who used to be an InfoWars Associate Editor, and still associates with the far-right (Henningsen has himself been a long time RT contributor).21st Century Wire of course is rife with conspiracies about the “New World Order”, with even a post quoting Aleksandr Dugin favorably, anti-Semitic “Rothschild” conspiracy theories, the “globalists”, neo-fascist and Holocaust denier David Icke, Lyndon LaRouche, Holocaust denial, calling the Charlie Hebdo attacks a false flag, blaming anti-Trump protests on George Soros and “globalists”.Engdahl is of course present on 21st Century Wire and is hosted on its podcast.21st Century Wire also shares material by Thierry Meyssan and hosts Gearoid o Colmain, self-proclaimed “communist” (he appears to be a member of the Pôle de renaissance communiste en France, a French Marxist-Leninist party) who openly voices out the vilest anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, considers the IMF to be a “tool of Zionism” (which is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory) and praises Hungarian far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban as bulwark against it and believes in conspiracy theories about the 2016 Nice attacks.21st Century Wire’s position on the war in Syria as of 2011 itself has been that it is a “regime change” plot by the “globalists” and by George Soros, and that Da’esh is a CIA creation as a tool to establish the “New World Order”. Beeley appears to be the source of conspiracies surrounding the White Helmets which were then aired by Russian state media.

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Reddit Socialism are seeking new moderators – applications closing this weekendhttps://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7qdz78/announcement_rsocialism_mod_applications/

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Submissions aren't limited to those topics so feel free to submit something.

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This is meant to be a comment onhttps://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2017/no-1359-november-2017/book-reviews-lenin-dictator-intimate-portrait-oc

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The Russian journal “Epistemology & Philosophy of Science” (http://journal.iph.ras.ru/) announces a call for papers for a special thematic issue devoted to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. The submissions are welcomed in terms of but not limited to the following topics:Marxist tradition of constructing a scientific philosophy and the modern naturalization trendMarxist understanding of science as an intellectual activity and a social institutionMarxist ideas of the social nature of cognition and the contemporary science and technology studiesScientific revolutions and the role of metaphysics in scienceDialectical materialism and the varieties of realismEpistemological theory of reflexion and its alternativesRepresentation and construction in knowledgeRelativism revisited and Lenin’s critique of relativismThe individual and collective cognitive agent: difference, identity, reductionN. Bukharin, B. Hessen and the science policy todayMarxism, Russian cosmism and post-humanism about the prospects of science, technology and humanitySubmissions are welcome in Russian and English, the preferred length is 4000-6000 words. The general guidelines are available on the journal site.Abstracts of submissions up to 150 words are expected by the 1st of March, 2018. Complete submission deadline is the 1st of May 2018.For more information, as well as submissions, contact journal@iph.ras.ru  Steve FullerAuguste Comte Chair in Social EpistemologyDepartment of Sociology University of Warwick@profstevefullerHomepage: profstevefuller.net

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Now also on Internet archivehttp://archive.org/details/spgbforumjournal/

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Might go to the Kautsky one

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alanjjohnstone wrote:

Next January will be the centenary of Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Leibnecht's murders.It would be an opportunity to publish a pamphlet offering our analysis of their ideas. We have done quite a number of sympathetic and some critical articles in the Standard.We could address nationalism, war, reformism, Marxian economics and political tactics all in one pamphlet, focussing on those two revolutionaries at a time when interest may have grown in their lives and deaths. Ample preparation time for the pamphlets committee…or they can co-opt a willing member for the task and merely do the proof-reading.  

Would you propose this and the other pamphlets through party channels?

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Would the Amish Old Order Mennonite be an example you would use?

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