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Extract from our Socialism As A Practical Alternative pamphlet;
”The power of the state, which operates from the concentration of centralized power in the hands of governments, will be replaced by a fully democratic system through which decisions will flow from the broadest possible social base to represent the views of the whole community. A democratic system of decision-making would require that the basic unit of social organisation would be the local community which could elect is delegates to a local council which could be given the responsibility for local administration.“
Maybe it does refer to “states rights” but the claim is the exact opposite of what Murray Bookchin based his theory of “communalism” on and in fact of anarchist theory and the Greens too. In any event, it doesn’t seem obvious that the smaller the political (decision-making) unit the easier it is for an oligarchy to control it.
That’s an odd quote (not from the author of the article), at least the second part is. You would normally think that the smaller the political unit is the less easy it would be run it oligarchically. Or, rather, the other way round, that the larger a political unit is the easier it would be to do this.
I wonder on what the quoted author based this view and what his evidence for it was.
The Socialist Standard’s review if Sunkara’s manifesto can be found here.
The author makes a good point when he says that the election of Biden will legitimise capitalist rule.
Here is the passage where he summarises the “coup scenario” which he identifies as “somewhat hyperbolic”:
”Some of the same people, who believe Trump “continues to lie” and is moronic, delusional, and incompetent, also believe Trump can carry off a coup. Trump, they claim, will command “white supremacist paramilitaries to be prepared to attack his and their ‘enemies’ if he loses on Election Day.” Adding, “Trump also wants Joe Biden and other leading Democrats imprisoned and perhaps even executed.”
We have come across that fantasist view too.
Remember this non-entity from last year and his claim at the Tory party’s conference?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-49884017
and this from the year before?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/17/conservatives-workers-party-robert-halfon
He needs to be careful himself in case that “equalities” quango doesn’t brand him as anti-semitic too, on the grounds that talk of a New World Order is some anti-semitic “trope” (whereas it’s just conspiraloon tripe). Or maybe they’ll just accuse him of “illuminatiphobia”.
Piers defends his brother:
The idea that #JeremyCorbyn or any #Corbyn was or is in any way racist or antisemitic is A REVOLTING EVIL TOTAL LIE – A figment of the globalist #NewWorldOrder #MSM lie innuendo and smear machine. THAT is the boil that must be lanced.#OurMovement #StopNewNormal https://t.co/bntJRsAA32
— Piers Corbyn (@Piers_Corbyn) October 29, 2020
The End of the World is Nigh on Tuesday 3 November. Or is it? We will soon know who is the fantasist.
Yesterday they were saying it was “socialist”. Today they are doing it themselves;
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/brandon-lewis-firebreak-lockdown-coronavirus-19162791
One of our comrades from NZ told us during the discussion on Discord last night that she had voted against both. Not because she was against euthanasia as such but because she thought that under capitalism it would be abused by people who wanted to inherit more quickly. She was against the cannabis one because she was against all smoking including tobacco. But I thought you could consume cannabis in a cake or in tea.
Meanwhile as the presidential circus passes by, people in America get to vote directly on more important issues in the one feature of the US political system that is more democratic (citizen initiatives):
Not only that but from his Wikipedia entry:
“Starmer married Victoria Alexander in 2007. She was previously a solicitor but now works in NHS occupational health. The couple’s son and daughter are being brought up in the Jewish faith of their mother and the family attend Shabbat dinners.”
Thought I would check up on who Sir Trevor Chinn was and this came up in his Wikipedia entry:
”Throughout his life he has also devoted himself to the Jewish community in Britain and supporting Israel in a number of roles, for example: chairman and President of the Joint Israel Appeal, the leading organisation in Britain supporting Israel’s humanitarian needs; board member of The Jewish Community Centre for London, President of Norwood from 1996 to 2006; one of the founders of the Jewish Association for Business Ethics (and now Vice-President). Sir Trevor currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Jewish Leadership Council and the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM)”.
I am not a Chomsky fan but I think they are being unfair by interviewing him. He is no longer his old self and is talking nonsenses. It sort of sad.
Don’t worry. It’s not going to happen. This is fantasy politics. Trump will be removed, if that’s what you want, if enough people vote for his main opponent, as seems to be what is happening with millions of people having already voted for this.
And I don’t believe that the leaders of the Republican Party have been plotting a fascist coup for the past four years. They are more likely to having been plotting how to dump Trump as his antics have cost them business support and may lose them control of the Senate.
More on how and why the far left, this time the Maoists and Stalinists, are saying Vote for Biden:
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/revolutionary-communist-party-leader-backs-biden/
A word of caution. The Washington Times is owned by the Moonies and is supporting Trump. They obviously want to say that Biden is being supported by the “Cahmunnists”. That explains why they’ve published this but that doesn’t mean that what they report is untrue.
