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Yes I used to be notified to come down on a date and queue up with a load of other old people for it, on a conveyer belt system and we joked amongst ourselves that there was cart waiting at the end, as we didn’t and couldn’t see anyone emerge. (but it was a hidden fire door exit.)
Then they stopped sending reminders and I couldn’t remember if I’d had one until a couple of years had passed.
I need to set up an appointment online now (I think).
Is it this one Robin?
Is this bird a genetically ‘elite’ species?
There will be no elites, classes, scientific, bureaucratic or otherwise in socialism, as any specialist delegates will be subject to instant recall.
How could it be otherwise in the classless society?
But we will need specialist interrogation of the pros and antis of any scientific studies. Adam’s point about,
If we want to go down that road a much quicker way would be gene therapy in which a person’s genes are altered to remove some manifest defect. I know this raises ethical problems too eg over what is a “defect”. But I don’t think that anybody would deny, would they, that the genetically-inherited condition Huntington’s Disease, with the horrible fate that awaits those who are going to get it, is something that should be eliminated? (My emphasis)
As he says, it raises ‘ethical’ questions and these would be requiring society as a whole to make the decisions, as to whether such a thing should be implemented.
Birds are a different thing altogether, with their alarmist twittering hardwired, it is prudent to be heedful of them.
But we should be wary of too much left-wing praise bestowed upon Gadaffi.
I wasn’t doing this. The thread was mainly about the war criminal running for president.
Americans are focused on an election between an Orange Fascist criminal and an old-school right-wing Democrat war criminal.
The Past is Prologue
It is September 2020. Americans are focused on an election between an Orange Fascist criminal and an old-school right-wing Democrat war criminal. Where Donald Trump projects chaos and disorder, Biden projects stability, order, and a return to normalcy. If Trump is the virus, then surely Biden is the cure.
It is September 2020. Libya prepares to enter its eighth year of civil war. Slave markets like the one in Bani Walid are as common as youth literacy centers were in Gaddafi’s Libya. Armed gangs and militias wield power even in areas nominally under government control. A warlord regroups in the East as he looks to Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates for support.
It is September 2020 and the US-NATO war on Libya has faded to a distant memory as other issues like Black Lives Matter and police murder of Black youth have captured the public imagination and discourse.
But these issues are, in fact, united by the bond of white supremacy and anti-Blackness. The Libya once known as the “Jewel of Africa,” a country that provided refuge for many sub-Saharan African migrant workers while maintaining independence from the US and the former colonial powers of Europe, is no more. In its place is a failed state that now reflects the kind of vicious anti-Black racism forcefully suppressed by the Gaddafi government.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/08/the-plot-against-libya/
Interesting stuff here as well.
There are about 68 different language groups in Mexico alone. While most speak Spanish (perhaps), they identify with and use their native language. The class distinction of them being ‘fellow workers’ is an important one, especially if they are employed or seeking to be so, as well as ‘human beings’.
Some more of the earlier Socialist Standard updates to the website.
Thanks to Cde. Adam Buick and Cde. Darren O’Neil for scanning and compiling them.
Added to 1910s archive.
- Editorial: Coal and Cant
- Paisley
- The Lord Didn’t Provide
- A Retrospect. Lessons drawn from the Socialist Movement from 1848 to 1895. by Frederick Engels
- Correspondence. Concerning Russia Again
- Party News: Our £1,000 Fund
- By The Way
- Life Under Socialism
- “If Only — !”
- Wages and Prices. The Socialist View
A good contribution from Johnny. How would you answer his question at the end?
Do ideas precede revolution, or does revolution give birth to ideas? And, of course, the answer is dialectical.
I am not great on dialectical riddles myself. I would say both.
I remember Nader’s Raiders blowing the gaff on the US deathtraps of motor cars. Looks like he is on good form there.
