Reply To: More on Brexit
Robbo wrote
“it would be a complete dereliction of our socialist duty not to point that the election of a Corbyn government can spell only one thing – shoring up the wealth of a tiny class of parasitic capitalists acquired through the exploitation of the workers.”
By the way you forgot he is ant semetic and his ex-wives hate him.
How can you disagree with his statement above?It is in your D of P and it was certainly a belief of Karl Marx which is more than you can say about the absurd statement ‘the immediate abolition of money and the state’
The SPGB is small because it is hostile to workers and their attempts to feed and house themselves.
Vin, that’s nonsense
Where have I suggested the man is anti-Semitic ? Where have I made any personal attacks on him?
You have completely missed the point. Of course the statement made by Corbyn about the class -divided nature of contemporary society is one the SPGB can fully agree with (setting aside his dubious comment about taxation). Just because he is a politician does not mean he cannot come out with a truthful statement
My point, as you very well know, is not about the veracity of his statement but about the ability of him and his party to deliver any meaningful change to a society that operates in the interest of capital and against the interests of wage labour. Corbyn, affable though he may be, determined though he may be to want to “stand with the workers”, will have no option but to side with capitalists in the class struggle against the workers. That’s a simple fact, Vin , whether you like it or not
It saddens me that you seem to have drifted away from socialism into Labourite reformism and making common cause with Corbyn fan club. Since when did socialists put their trust in, or hero worship, leaders?
As for saying “The SPGB is small because it is hostile to workers and their attempts to feed and house themselves” – come on now, even you must recognise this for the bollocks that it is.
You have allowed the “red mist” that has descended upon you ever since you left the Party to distort your perception . I hope one day that mist will lift and you might once again become a comrade in the cause for socialism