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The reason why gold, diamonds, pearls etc are more “valuable” than more useful things like water and air is that, in an exchange (trading, buying and selling) economy such capitalism is, the “value” of anything is determined by how much work has on average to be put in to produce it. And more work has to be put into first finding gold and diamonds and then extracting them than has to be put into finding and extracting water. Air has no “value” because no work is needed to find it.
In a socialist/communist society where things will be produced to be used rather than to be sold this contradiction between use-value (usefulness) and “value” (exchange-value, price) won’t exist, if only because nothing will have an exchange-value as nothing will be produced with a view to being exchanged for something else. Everything will be being produced and distributed simply to be used.
Here’s a picture of the poor sod mentioned in that article and detained by the police for beating up and perhaps the application of the rule of “Lynch Law”. We are being asked to support one gangster regime against another:
From Wikipedia entry on Kreminna:
“In March 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russian mayor Volodymyr Struk who welcomed the Russian move, was found shot dead in the street after having been kidnapped from his home.
Official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Herashchenko said that Struk was judged under the Lynch Law. Herashchenko suggested that the mayor was murdered by “unknown patriots” as the Russian forces were 15 kilometers away from Kreminna.”
I wonder how many other opponents of the current Ukrainian government have been judged under “the Lynch Law”. Is this what they mean by the “rule of law”?
By today’s legalistic standards Trotsky would be Ukrainian as would Martov, Brezhnev and Khrushchev. Or would they? Which goes to show how stupid nationalism and “national identity” are.
More about Lenin statutes in Ukraine here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-53500436.amp
The ironic thing is that, as Putin himself has pointed out, it was Lenin who created Ukraine by making it a separate administrative unit of Bolshevik Russia:
https://huri.harvard.edu/news/serhii-plokhii-casus-belli-did-lenin-create-modern-ukraine
That was part of my point. They have better — or, rather, worse — things to do.
There are also nostalgics in Russia for the pre-Bolshevik, Tsarist regime, including, apparently, Putin.
Fair enough. Ok there will be nostalgics in the Russian army for the old USSR. But I still don’t believe that they restored that statute of Lenin or even that it was restored at all. The Ukrainian side also has an interest in cultivating the idea that the Russian government wants to recreate the USSR.
This looks like another piece of fake news. Why would Russian troops bother to restore a statute of Lenin? Don’t those behind this know that “communism” (state capitalism) ended in Russia 30 years ago?
We have discovered a hustings to which we have not been invited:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lambeth-community-hustings-tickets-307494082077
The claim that is only for “major parties” is refuted by fact that the Women’s Equality Party which, like us, is only contesting one ward (as it happens, one bordering on ours), has been invited and given a link to their website.
We don’t suppose many, if any, will attend their online event but it’s a question of principle. So we wrote asking for an invitation, to which we got the following reply:
“Thanks for getting in touch. As we already have five confirmed candidates taking part we will need to put Danny on a holding list for the panel. Lambeth Labour are still to reply; we need to hold a spot for them in case they do want to take part, and any more than six on the panel will be unworkable.
Leave it with us and we’ll come back to you if a space opens up.
Thank you
Ben”Naturally, this is unacceptable and we have replied insisting on being invited.
We shall certainly be leafletting their day of action of Saturday 23rd even though it coincides with Conference (but Windrush Square isnt all that far from Clapham High Street).
That article, in view of other reports, is not unbelievable. One criticism of it would be that it describes the pro-Russian politicians and parties as “leftwing” whereas they are Russian nationalists.
As in all wars, atrocities are being committed by both sides but we are being asked to back one of them. What is particularly hypocritical is that the side we are told that we should back is claimed to be fighting for democracy, the rule of law and all that. But they are just Ukrainian nationalists out to defend the existence and territorial integrity of the Ukrainian capitalist state.
Meanwhile, that we are standing in Tunbridge Wells gets a mention in the local media:
Someone who has a real stake in the outcome of the war — Ukraine’s richest oligarch. He wants his steelworks (plural) back:
Four members distributed a further 1400 this afternoon which means that most of the streets in the ward have now been leafletted. The few remaining can be done next week or later.
More signs of some other political activity this time such as a window poster saying saying “Keep Calm and Vote for Any Party but Labour”. Also the manifesto of the Labour candidates for the neighbouring Brixton Acre ward.
Imposs1904 will be pleased that it is not only Red Fightback that it concerned with toilet matters. Lambeth Labour is too. Their candidates pledge that “we’ll tackle fly tipping, public urination and litter through long term solutions.” Unfortunately this won’t help Imposs1904 as they propose to deal with this not by providing more public toilets but by “increasing police presence”.
It used to be called transportation. The scheme is not going to work anyway. If there really were opportunities for jobs in Rwanda people would be moving there from nearer countries. The most likely outcome is that the Rwandan authorities will take the money and, after a year or so, run to somewhere like Switzerland or the Cayman Islands leaving the transported Kurds and Afghans destitute. It’s so predictable.
Just saw this. The Greens’ view on how to support NATO’s proxy war against Russia, even if it’s a pain they want to impose on us anyway:
“Germans are being urged to turn down their heating by a degree and use the train or bike over Easter to help reduce their dependence on Russian gas and oil.
‘It’s easy on the wallet and annoys Putin,’ says Economics Minister Robert Habeck, who’s also joint leader of the Greens, one of three parties running Germany.”
