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Very nice it is too Lew. It didn’t fit in with my Linux architecture in Mint but it goes with the Chromium browser no bother.
I think we are closer to Marx than LB gives us credit for.
He overeggs his pudding, as always, and says, “The longer I read posts written by contributors to this site, the more I realise that ‘democracy’ is seen as a threat, not a solution, by many, if not all. The problem seems to be that ‘individualism’ is valued here much more highly than ‘democratic production’, which was Marx’s fundamental political and philosophical concern.”Absolute bilge. We don’t have or ascribe to,’higher’ or ‘lower’ values as he imputes.
“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
If he is damaged, as he undoubtably will be, but competition for the leadership is uninspiring, his cabinet colleagues, Javid, Sunak, Gore, Patel, etc have yet to win their spurs, he still might have enough right wing populist oomph, to win them the next election, but if the winning margins prove tighter they’ll ‘do a Thatcher’ on him and dump him afterwards.
“Life after COVID: most people don’t want a return to normal – they want a fairer, more sustainable future”
Intriguing I thought.
But it has made me curious. How an American right-wing libertarian has come to learn about the SPGB and believes it is deserving of being singled out for his criticism.
Ian Rae, Brian Johnston and myself regularly use our links in posts on Quora.
Their view of ‘immoral’ behaviour blithely skates past the two world conflagrations and immumerable smaller ones of the last century rising out of competition as well as the actual birth pangs of capitalism and its emulation in the statist variations of last century.
It is no surprise that those excesses Gulags and all, were similar to those of earlier developments of capitalism, writ large in attempts to catch up with developed capitalism elsewhere.
“If money, according to Augier, [14] “comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek,” capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. [15] The Genesis of Industrial Capitalism.”
Good that he responded, we can keep him on hold for a discussion in the future and he may eventually decide to throw his lot in with us.
Let us please not divert the thread from COP26.
1. The general topic of each forum is given by the posted forum description. Do not start a thread in a forum unless it matches the given topic, and do not derail existing threads with off-topic posts.
They were letting down tyres of SUVs in Glasgows West End arguing this was a ‘posh’ bit of Glasgow. It is not necessarily so.
One motorist was chemist needing to travel to Ayrshire I think.A lengthy if dated philosophical essay from Russell.
In Praise of Idleness
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/Posting on Facebook page from Glasgow activity. https://www.facebook.com/groups/779523775463252/permalink/4639960219419569/
