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No. 168 August 1918
The Revolution in Russia: Where it Fails
Is this huge mass of people, numbering about 160,000,000 and spread over eight and a half millions of square miles, ready for Socialism? Are the hunters of the North, the struggling peasant proprietors of the South, the agricultural wage slaves of the Central Provinces, and the industrial wage slaves of the towns convinced of the necessity, and equipped with the knowledge requisite, for the establishment of the social ownership of the means of life?
Unless a mental revolution such as the world has never seen before has taken place, or an economic change has occurred immensely more rapidly than history has recorded, the answer is “No!”
And it is extremely significant that neither Trotsky nor Litvinoff say a single word on this aspect of the situation.
No. 176 April 1919
As a matter of fact it is admitted by the staunchest friends of the Bolshevist movement that the election for the Constituent Assembly (an election based upon a popular franchise) resulted in a bourgeois majority. So far is it from being true, therefore, that the working class overthrew the Kerensky crowd, that the working class voted the bourgeoisie into power, and the Bolsheviks it was who squashed the Kerensky crowd by suppressing the Constituent Assembly.
It is a nonsense to say as Trotsky did,
“under the banner of Bolshevism the first victory of the proletariat was achieved and the first workers’ state established”.
It was a victory for elite rule over the proletariat and peasants.
I’ll keep to politics rather than the poetry
Your choice obviously. The quote is confused as anything.
I never do so with Dylan. This grants him some artistic license.
I think he is a decent sort of person, who is and was, on the side of the oppressed and underdog.
Politically he rides different horses with the one ideologically compromised ass.
When he gets it nearly right I love him, but other times he is an ass.
Well, he is a musician and a poet, and a lyricist and it is all infused with sounds that are just right for me from folk to bluegrass, blues, jazz, rock.
Did not realise you were such a fan of JFK Alan
I think I take it he is a fan of arguing for revolutionary social change rather than indulging in political assassination.
The People’s Global Resource Bank Ecological Economic Money System is the solution to the climate crisis
Money provides no solution.
https://www.worldsocialism.org/wsm/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/free-1.pdf
There is some intersting stuff in this article on pre-colonial agriculture in tropical rainforst areas..
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jun/22/the-real-urban-jungle-how-ancient-societies-reimagined-what-cities-could-beOut of interest, how has affected our stats and followers?
It hasn’t on the website. Just few from Washington. The Twitter item might show more but not my area.
It was 1972 when I joined the party so I don’t recall this but Glasgow members had a wide range of musical tastes and some diverse talents also.
I like Heron’s stuff too. I can’t always hear the lyrics, unfortunately being deaf. I am picking these up better on headphones. I like the sounds. I saw him at a gig in Edinburgh.
My partner slags me off sometimes for singing words I think I’m hearing.
Too painful to give you an example. 😉In any case, he is a poyet and he knoyet.
His ‘Chimes of Freedom’ a master of poetical abstraction and a counterblast to Simon and Gurfunkels ‘American Tune’.
I don’t recall him ever calling himself a counter-cultural icon.
His lyrics are great. His poetry magic and his sounds and reworking of blues, country, and folk imaginative.
His musical influences are all evident to hear in his radio, podcast things on YouTube.I liked especially in his early ‘Times are changing’ album one, ‘When the Ship Comes In’.. A bit leaderist he uses biblical images as Marx did, but the line “They’ll raise their hands and say we’ll meet all your demands but we’ll shout from the bows your days are numbered, But like Pharaoh’s pride they’ll be drownded in the tide and like Goliath, they’ll be conquered”, resonates with me.
I frighten people singing it going past on my new Vespa-style mobility scooter.A similar point in this article.
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-lie-that-a-kinder-gentler-us-empire-is-possible-a5c7b5416826I don’t think China is doing any other than accelerating what was done over longer periods in previous developments of capitalism.
“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.”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch31.htm
It looks like Salmond’s ego has taken another bruising.
During a fairly intemperate YouTube broadcast on Saturday afternoon, in which he hit out at “weirdos and cranks” in the media and accused Sturgeon of “losing her nerve” over a referendum, Salmond warned that Alba would be “much more vigorous post-election [and] free to criticise the lack of urgency and immediacy on independence”.
How many will be listening is another matter.
A new distressing development in Indian cases, of Mucormycosis, arising from overdosing with steroids.
