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Lenin was not able to fool around with the Socialist Party
Lest we offer critics ammunition, let us be clear that it is extremely doubtful if Lenin had ever heard of us.
However, your statement is true regards the many followers of Lenin who tried to convince the Socialist Party to emulate the Russian Revolution despite vast differences in conditions and circumstances.
Such an insignificant organisation that True Scotsman has a need to return and this time to cite the rags to riches narrative so popular with the wealthy class yet he doesn’t recognise the irony that he promotes the rise of a new ruling class.
When True Scotman revealed he is in Japan, I was about to ask about Japan’s pre-WW2 claims of being anti-imperialist but he departed too soon.
To justify war-aims, an ideology of some sort must be attached to the military strategy.
Japan invaded Taiwan to defend the short-lived “Republic of Formosa” and had been “invited” in.
Japan “annexed” and Korea a protectorate to “protect” it and proceeded with the Japanisation of Korea
Japan invaded Manchuria to “free” it from China and then began to settle it with ethnic Japanese
They appealed to the anti-colonialism of many Indians and built an anti-British army.
All this was later presented ideologically by Japan as anti-imperialism and steps in the creation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere to free Asian countries from Western domination.
“Asia for the Asians”
Naturally, the Japanese ruling class were not after a greater empire to acquire raw materials, were they? They came as liberators, didn’t they?
But True Scotsman is able or willing to recognise the parallels.
As MS has observed, Matt, there are many visitors to this website who believe they are in possession of the “truth” and “reality” but when challenged by ourselves, they take indignant umbrage that their “knowledge” is being called into question by an organisation that holds collective wisdom of generations of socialists who have deeply studied politics and reached different conclusions from these “enlightened” visitors who rely upon the Illuminati internet as the interpretation of their “ideas”.
It is unfortunate that we must expend our valuable energy dismissing their illusions and it is sad that they do not appreciate the alternative Marxist viewpoint and swiftly depart to pastures a-new where their glib analysis is readily accepted.
They misunderstand the scientific method when they accuse us of standing by original socialist theory, disparagingly describing an accurate representation of traditional socialist understanding, “real socialism”, as the True Scotsman fallacy.
They ignore that we have added important caveats to Marxism, with our contributions resulting in an improved case for socialism.
In defence of livestock farming
modest portions of nutrient-dense animal products are uniquely effective in preventing or addressing chronic malnutrition. The high concentration of essential nutrients in animal-based foods – often impossible to replicate in plant-based foods – also makes them highly valuable during other life stages, especially adolescence, pregnancy and lactation.
sustainable approaches to livestock farming that are good for people and the planet.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/dutertes-defence-chief-says-manila-got-less-from-us-pact
China, which claims historical rights over most of the areas in the South China Sea, amended its Maritime Traffic Safety Law in recent months. It took effect on September 1. It covers five types of vessels including submersibles, nuclear vessels, ships carrying radioactive materials, ships carrying bulk oil, chemicals, liquefied gas and other toxic and harmful substances, and other vessels “that might endanger China’s maritime traffic safety”,
Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has promised that it will ignore China’s amended maritime law, which now requires foreign vessels sailing in the South China Sea to report their information to Chinese authorities.
Lorenzana said it is time for a comprehensive review of Manila’s alliance with the US and there is a need to “upgrade” and “update” the alliance .
As you prefer 12th C history, perhaps this piece might interest you
VNN: In the past, Vietnam many times was invaded by its “northern feudal neighbor”. China was always an aggressive giant. However, miraculously, Chinese troops have always suffered bitter defeats, despite their great strength. These have been recorded in history. What do you think was the Vietnamese strength which helped drive the Chinese out of Vietnamese territory?
NKT: All Chinese dynasties, since the Qin Shi Huang reign, have nurtured hegemony. They sent their best generals and powerful armies to Vietnam,
Since you adopt the nom de plume of True Scotsman, perhaps you justify the subjugation of Scotland because of a 12th C king of England asserted his claim to it?
I actually recommend you read Stalin
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm
Future society will be socialist society. This means primarily, that there will be no classes in that society; there will be neither capitalists nor proletarians and, consequently, there will be no exploitation. In that society there will be only workers engaged in collective labour.
Future society will be socialist society. This means also that, with the abolition of exploitation commodity production and buying and selling will also be abolished and, therefore, there will be no room for buyers and sellers of labour power, for employers and employed— there will be only free workers.
Future society will be socialist society. This means, lastly, that in that society the abolition of wage-labour will be accompanied by the complete abolition of the private ownership of the instruments and means of production; there will be neither poor proletarians nor rich capitalists—there will be only workers who collectively own all the land and minerals, all the forests, all the factories and mills, all the railways, etc.
As you see, the main purpose of production in the future will be to satisfy the needs of society and not to produce goods for sale in order to increase the profits of the capitalists. Where there will be no room for commodity production, struggle for profits, etc.
It is also clear that future production will be socialistically organised, highly developed production, which will take into account the needs of society and will produce as much as society needs. Here there will be no room whether for scattered production, competition, crises, or unemployment.
Where there are no classes, where there are neither rich nor poor, there is no need for a state, there is no need either for political power, which oppresses the poor and protects the rich. Consequently, in socialist society there will be no need for the existence of political power.
Perhaps you should have done some preliminary investigation of our website and come to understand the principles held by ourselves and the fact that we still exist as a functioning political party when many other so-called socialist parties have entirely disappeared albeit not the mass organisation we still aspire to become, before you made your assertions and then you would not have lingered for as long.
(But you won’t appreciate that comment since you won’t be returning, preferring the authority of a various YouTube videos to the actual works of Marx and Engels on the materialist conception of history and the evolution of social systems.)
Long Live the Thoughts of Mao, Deng and Xi!!
The ideas of Marx and Engels, you can ignore and disregard
Our socialist peace policy is a simple one.
Whatever concessions or compromises to stop the deaths and unnecessary suffering have to be made, need to be made, regardless of unpalatable, it may be.
Continuing to define the Taliban as pariahs and denying those mad mullahs money, handicaps humanitarian aid to the Afghani people.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2021/09/in-afghanistan-misery-continues.html
Our critic, True Scotsman, will no doubt condone the events of Tiananman Sq in 1989 as inspired by Western imperialism and justify the suppression of the memory of its crushing as anti-imperialism.
An informative essay on the Taliban leadership
