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“If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and nutritionists are the people guiding us through the thicket of what to believe when it comes to food. But food trends are far more political – and economically motivated – than it seems.”
Nothing new for us here, but an interesting read.
Here is another view on electoral interference and media bias.
As part of the work in the Folkestone area at the time there was a Party Newsletter for public distribution.
The PDF is here.
I forwarded that to the list where members ‘should’ be more likely to see it. https://groups.io/g/spintcom/message/19530
Do we do this by returning to Marx and “real” socialism?
Or do we re-start all over again and begin afresh?
Can we pix and mix the best of both?
I do not think we should in any way dilute an uncompromising message as to what socialism is and is not.
I appreciate this is not your suggestion, but I got a reply the other day to one of my posts on another forum, to say in effect that most Americans “are trained like Pavlov’s dogs” to react negatively to the language which I use. “Your post is not very effectively communicating your message. I suggest that we need to design for a post capitalist/socialist economy. So there is room for discussion”.
It is basically saying ‘don’t scare the horses’ in my view.
But if we are not doing this, then no one is.
SOYMB has a post on Mexican unions and the emergence of the “20/32 Movement” https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/12/mexicos-2032-movement.html
Does is really matter is Boris Johnson if a bore or just plain boorish?
Or if idiosyncratic or idiot.
Thanks Dave.
It is tricky, as income and assets ownership and control don’t quite equate to the same thing.
This gave an 80-20 ratio but with a lot of formulaic stuff my head screams at.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
This one with Ultra High Net Worth (UMHNW) figures looks as if it might give me what I am after.
I’ll download the PDF and give it go.
https://www.wealthx.com/report/world-ultra-wealth-report-2019/
Today’s news announcement that one of the documents Corbyn has quoted may have come from Russia has an uncanny parallel with the Zinoviev Letter that brought down the first Labour government in 1924:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter
The trouble is that, as then, we won’t know till after the election is over whether it is a dirty trick or not.
I think the anti-semitism meme in the media was a concerted dirty trick.
General Election – 12 December 2019 Mailout
All the capitalist parties, be they far ‘right’ or far ‘left’, and all those in between, have no intention of abolishing capitalism.
Every capitalist party accepts the notion that the means to life must be owned—not by all the people—but instead by a tiny minority. And the majority must go to work, and be dependent on a wage—either directly or indirectly—for their livelihood.
The General Election is in a few days and all the capitalist parties have been trying to persuade you that ‘the country’ will be better off if their party is in government.
All the capitalist parties will tell the voters that they have the best ideas, the best policies when it comes to jobs, and health care, and education, and transport, and housing, and defence, and the environment, and everything else.
All the capitalist parties not in government will lay most of the blame for ‘the country’s’ problems at the door of the capitalist party that is in government.
All the parties will claim they will tackle the underlying causes of ‘the country’s’ problems.
All the parties will claim they offer the voter real change.
All the capitalist parties believe it is a natural state of affairs for there to be people with vast wealth, and people who don’t have a pot to piss in.
All politicians believe that ants and people have this in common: Both need a queen (owning class) and workers.
All politicians think there must be leaders and led. And that they possess some innate quality that enables them to play the roll of the former.
Contradictorily, all the politicians say—with a straight face—that they are the servants of the people. If they (or their) party win the vote, they will do what is in the best interest of ‘the country’.
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A good movie.
All the candidates in Cardiff Central, including the SPGB’s (and his cat), have their say:It looks an interesting read. The review’ conclusion is bit of a spoiler.
The Kataristas presented an idealized pre-Columbian society, outlining a socialist vision that many Bolivians would like to make a reality. The ideas of national liberation and communal society have taken root. Benjamin Dangl’s book tells how that came about; it will be a valuable resource in understanding what is to come.
