L.B. Neill
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Fantasy is a great escape in this and any age.
I have returned to reading Ken Macleod: Corporation Wars.
When I return to the reality of my lived existence: the nations are still blowing the shit out of civilians.
We need light. The shadow is too oppressive.
Be safe,
L.B.Everything, everywhere, all at once!
Ubiquitous!
It seems these days ubiquitous nationalism is appearing and causing so much conflict: both within and between countries… dare I say ‘nations’.
What does it mean: more war-war.
Everything, everywhere… and suddenly, all at once.
Peace and grace,
L.B.Oh…
Not sure what to write.
I really do hope he is okay… but that sounds concerning robbo and Moo.
Alan helped me explore my socialism in context of me also being a person of faith.
Both he and others here helped that development: and how I could embrace and vociferate socialism that I had held for so long.
I was looking to re-engage with his wisdoms…. now I hope he is okay.
LB“I’m going to open a new thread on Sade, because this has gone seriously off topic.”
No Thomas: not Sadie! Shakespeare’s Rebels maybe?
Or my favourite: The Christian who is a Socialist: paradox or natural synthesis.Three Charlies: what a comedy show!
Charlie III gave an oath to be a ‘serving king’- self service anyone!
I stopped watching the coronation at that oath… muttering to myself like an irate and bewildered muppet… my partner thought it was a good idea to leave the room as I was ruining the muppet show, I was clearly the heckler in the gallery box.Being Irish, I responded to the ‘what say you’ oath with “no thanks”. I got a giggle from mi partner as I left the TV room to a hum of the muppet theme tune!
No! I am watching this coronation on the South of the world… ‘Serve’… really!
Swearing is what I am muttering.M,
The article you posted from WSWS hints at a widening of the ‘killing fields’ and the US legitimising any Ukraine tactics.
YMS said in a post further on, a metaphor: meat grinder. There are going to be more losses of life in this needless tiff amongst toffs. A graveyard as YMS puts it: is being fought over.
I am not being dismissive of the dreadful loss of working class lives: but I would proffer that a drone game of chess be used to settle the toff/oligarchy dispute over their spoils of toffee.
The real solution to this and any other conflict is to be aware and use the electoral system to change the mode of production… I am not aware of the current socialist movement in Russia and Ukraine, and would like to know where their voice is in this moment of time.
Do you have any info?
Regards,
LB NeillFalse flag?
It seems the use of this technique is old as the hills. Could Putin have manufactured the event, the drone strike, to escalate his targets to ‘retaliate’ by mutual return and seek to assassinate Ukraine’s leadership… legitinising it in some macabre way…
Nothing at all is legitimate about war. False flags are the loss of truth… not just the first victim of war but a sustained casualty…
Workers killing workers is the worst of all… and that these factions can create a point of antagonism between workers, a false ideology, and use it to fuel national violence, killing a ‘false enemy’ … a false flag in itself.
Workers, I wish saw the true conditions of their lived and shared experience as a point of solidarity, due care, and common interests.Define conversion from socialism to libertarian.
The reason I ask is related to how people and their positions shift, and perhaps are fluid.
I, myself shift and apply technical understanding of the most fair mode, and keeps coming back to the central anchor of socialism… yet… when I enter the centre space and argue for socialism I interact with broad views. These views and dialogue with otherness help me appreciate divergence; and yet I share the views of SPGB in the mode. Libertarian views still have owning and accumulation of wealth and consumer capture for the benefit of a self.
Self and social has been axiomatic: knowing the self means knowing the other…
So the question conversion: it is what kind of conversion occurred? I am curious about why you raise this, and why liberal libitarianism would even be considered. Anarcho-capitalism would be buyer beware and likely increase human suffering on any model think tank from social or pro social thought.History is a great background study to use in other work- such as narrative therapy applications in context to a client’s lived experience (Counselling method applications would you believe!).. A key if you will to other studies- oh gone all nerdy!!!!!
Thomas, I love you posts and the history you often use in them helps me appreciate your stance, the others too.
Wonder if there is a text on the historical narrative thread of doom predictions… now that would be an interesting read… or project!You know I am rereading ‘Why History’ and the joys of history from a view of deconstruction!
It is both a distraction and a frustration 🙂
My brain just atomised!
My Google is now being redirected to search social and cultural theory and positive ideas… yet the temptation to see what is going on and critique the world events and its cries of doom is still there!I really need to stop watching the news a little while: perhaps watch some classic Spitting Image instead- Brezhnev(?) and Reagan swapping brains!
Failing that, I can be cheered up by toilet paper runouts and nuclear sirens… stocks of working class loo paper will be highly regarded as the last thing we do will be marked by the need for lots of loo paper 🙂
Must admit. I have cheered up with the last 3 posts. Thank you comrades.
I will remain positive.Let us hope they do not want to atomise the very thing they seek as market capture… they may itemise it as their capital inventory… and shun the cost of life as some collateral loss (current and future workforce. Corporate hostile takeovers and counter measures.
It is loss of life that I mourn for: people.
The commodification of people can likely lead to a morbid risk reward mentality… if only pro-social tendencies would stop them from tearing others up… again, nothing in their mode of production would permits such a nostalgia for life.
I remember reading on the site selfish ambition of people in a common society would lead to co-operation and end wars out of the self desiring life… only through mutual wish to preserve life do we see the other and a comrade and war is counter to this understanding…. can any correct this notion… I would love to better appreciate the idea.Again.. very sobering remarks ALB.
Like Thomas, I fell into the worst case propaganda of nuclear disaster.
Conventional weapons are bad enough too…
It is easy to fall into the ideology of the risk of mutually assured destruction.
The deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus made the threat more tangible… yet I guess this is part of ‘gang’ tactics to compel turf war settlement, and negotiate boundaries of street control of capital sovereignty (razor gang -like). The basic determinant of any war in their system is almost market correction of the spoils of expansion and contraction.
The odd thing is: the historical and temporal topology and information of any war differs; and yet the root causation remain the same-market spoils to the controlling elites at the expense of the subordinated classes.
If there is ever a time for education and clarity and awareness of this class exploitation it is now, and always has been.
