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The duty of a socialist would be to explain to the Jain why national service is far from being self-defence, but is in fact murderous service for hire.
‘Duty’?
The role of the socialist is to encourage the Jain to do a lot of harm to the capitalist class by dispossessing them of the means of production and distribution,
‘peacefully if we may, violently if we must’.
Some more additions thanks to Adam and Darren.
Economics.
Up to the late nineteenth century it had the more accurate name of Political Economy, but since then capitalist economics has become mainly concerned with price formation. Marxian economics on the other hand explains how, under capitalism, wealth production is governed by forces based on exchange value which operate independently of human will. These forces impose themselves as external, coercive laws when people make decisions about the production of wealth. In other words, the social process of wealth production under capitalism is an economy governed by economic laws and studied by a special discipline, economics.
Socialism will re-establish conscious human control over wealth production. Therefore, socialism will abolish capitalism’s economic laws and so also ‘the economy’ as the field of human activity governed by their operation.
Hence socialism will make economics, including Marxian economics, redundant. (My italics & emphasis. M.C.)
Reading B. Sarkar & A. Buick, Marxian Economics and Globalisation, 2009
Posted by (Moved from Coronavirus thread) I think some forms of religious worship are acceptable for Party members.
The NYC local DSA branch claims to be the largest socialist organization in the United States,
I spend a lot of time correcting this sort of nonsense elsewhere.
An indirect link here asking questions, if not providing any answers ,about the politics behind the ‘sacrality’ of Holocaust remembrance.
Buddhism is the world’s fourth largest religion, and along with other non-theistic religions, does not entail a belief in the existence of a supernatural entity that intervenes in nature and human affairs.
It still allows them to kill Muslims. It is the age old use of all religion in secular affairs. Where ‘believers’ are manipulated.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22356306
Socialists share in the Enlightenment inheritance of respect for reason and evidence against its traditional foe, religion. But at the same time we recognise that the main source of irrationality and exploitation in the modern world is to be found in the capitalist system of society. For socialists, therefore, the struggle against religion cannot be separated from the struggle for socialism. We fight religious superstition wherever it is an obstacle to socialism, but we are opposed to religion only insofar as it is an obstacle to socialism.
The following resolution was passed at our 2003 Conference: ‘The Socialist Party takes a non-theistic, materialist approach to things, in particular to society and social change. Religious people believe in the existence of at least one supernatural entity that intervenes in nature and human affairs. Socialists hold that we live only once. Religious people believe in some afterlife. Clearly the two are incompatible.’
Here are some links to other pages on our website that deal with religion:
Socialism, Atheism or Religion?
Religion: Dying but not yet Dead
Religion and the Limits of the State
Socialism and Religion (1910 pamphlet)
More on the Marxian socialist analysis of religion can be found at http://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/religion.htm
Comments are now enabled in each of these Socialist Standard articles and will be so in the future editions of the Socialist Standard.
Thanks to P.Hobson for his coding help in this regards and to everyone else for their patience.
Just watched a You Tube documentary on WWI where the first black regiment sent to the front, the 369th, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters, did not fight in American units but were seconded to the French and fought in French uniform alongside the French under the French flag and they would received French medals, not American, to maintain segregation.
About the Hellfighters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuoAl1elLU
About Henry Johnson
My experience is more positive, seeing local food deliveries to others, is they wear gloves and masks.
In one instance the driver photo’d the parcel in my drive rather than have me sign for it. (I was alerted by email prior to delivery that this would happen.)
Some more additions thanks to Adam and Darren’s behind the scenes activity.
- Editorial: By Request
- Ephemera
- “We Must Produce Cheaper”
- Society and Morals Part 11
- Party News: The Little Tambourine
A few of these were already announced I think but here is the state of play.
The blog has several posts on TPP.
Not half. Good work there.
This is the Kliman interview:
This is the Mattick one:
I’m sorry you no longer find any value in my writing, but it is now obviously intended for quite a different audience.
“As Darren McGarvey argues in his book Poverty Safari, the left wastes a great deal of time critiquing “the system”, and believes it is doing good. More good would be done if they could instead help people give up drinking, smoking and eating rubbish and find something meaningful to do, both within and without their bullshit jobs.” (Watkins)
A different audience. Too true. Followers of Katie Hopkins maybe?
Do you think women should think about how they are going to feed a child before they decide to have it? I do not want to pay to feed other people’s kids. You are welcome to. (Hopkins)
