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The election of Trump was the US proletariat’s imposition of its dictatorship:
https://jacobin.com/2024/11/trump-2024-election-inflation-economy
This is much closer to my own idea of an ‘underplayed classic’. Arrigo Barnabé at the Teatro Pixinguinha in São Paulo, 1979, exhibiting a marriage of popular music and the dodecaphonic series (Schoenbergism).
Or, the same song many years later, and much much less crudely:
In connection with #249321 #249333 #249495 #249530 and #249536 above,
I would like to add into that sub-thead Robin Cox’s most recent relevant contribution: https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2020s/2024/no-1442-october-2024/material-world-non-market-socialism-is-feasible
I don’t know what thread to put this into, but Dietzgen comes up so I’ll put it here.
The CWO’s review of a new book about Pannekoek (found to be both superfluous and ‘shoddy’ in its treatment of him):
In connection with #254338 —
About expatriate Irani royalism’s pro-Israelism: https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/exiled-iranian-monarchists-align-with-israels-hardliners/
And also here, by the infamous David Miller, writing on the Irani state’s Press TV website … and in fact he mentions the author of the h.moss recommended article, in an uncomplimentary fashion naturally:
Harris vs Trump vs Stein/West:
about the Muslim vote and Arab-American vote in the US:
Harris, Trump, or Neither? Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows
ALB –
Here’s a link, that will work, to the h.moss recommended article: https://archive.ph/lRWgPA critique of that IP review of the David Adam book is here:
In the same issue (no longer the current one) an article titled ‘Political organisation is key’, which is not worth linking to, ends on this note:
‘Comrade Conrad pointed out that the left in general is in a parlous state. The much vaunted revival of the Young Communist League seems to have come to exactly naught. The Socialist Appeal/RCP success in recruiting young people has been hugely exaggerated. In reality it is a Potemkin village. Internationally too the left is doing badly. For example the Democratic Socialists of America have declined from 100,000 registered members to around half that now. Meanwhile, there has been the complete collapse of the Corbyn project. This has had an adverse effect, but without people learning the lessons.
Instead there is the search by the flotsam and jetsam for the next soft left alliance, broad party, anti-cuts initiative or some other such nonsense. What is needed is commitment to founding a Communist Party.’
Nuclear energy is a relatively good thing:
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1503/natures-gift-to-humanity
(I omit the retort to the above by Jack Conrad titled ‘Nuclear power’s useful idiots’.)
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1506/another-useful-innocent
[title ‘Another useful innocent’ bestowed by disapproving editor.]
Amusing article about it in the still current WW.
Title: ‘Corbyn’s maybe party —
An eclectic mixture of soft lefts, reformist has-beens, committed localists, inveterate unity-mongers and the plain deluded have been secretly meeting. But, asks Carla Roberts, can we expect anything more than yet another Labour Party mark two?’ALB, if you look back at that libcom page now, the CWO’s Dyjbas has answered both your question and mine.
@ALB, earlier this morning I put this question (along with another one) to leftdis.wordpress.com, old-fashioned KAPD-style German-Dutch left-communists and champions of the GIC thing. Fredo Corvo by name.
(Later I saw that you posted your question to that libcom page. )
The SPGB as _bloody_ revolutionists. How times have changed. Ha!
‘GEIS observed that the members of The Socialist Party of Great Britain were obsessed with the idea of an armed Revolution ; they could not conceive the possibility of a peaceful revolution, and therefore they insisted on the necessity of the control by the workers of the armed forces of the nation. Their eyes were full of the blood of the French Revolution. Unless the workers were Industrially organised a bloody revolution would undoubtedly occur.’
‘He (Fitzgerald) had every reason to desire a peaceful revolution, but the history of class-antagonisms and the circumstances of modern times provided him with but little hope in that direction.’
