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roman wrote:The evidence for the historicity of Jesus is as good as anyone else in the ancient world, we have more than we would expect.
Who are these other figures in the ancient word the evidence for whose existence is as "good" (or as flimsy) as Jesus's. A few names please. Thanks.
When announcing yet another troop surge in Afghanistan Trump say they were going there not to "nation-build" but to "kill terrorists".It has long be obvious that this is their policy in Syria and too bad if they also kill the family members of terrorists and innocent by-standers. They think that Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army should have simply killed the ISIS terrorists rather than transport them.I'm sure there'll be some something in the Geneva Convention against this but then this convention is just a scrap of paper anyway.
Balanced aericle on automation here:https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/Productivity just doesn't increase that fast because it's not the effect of automation at the last stage of production that counts but the total labour cost in producing a commodity from start to finish. As the article points out, if automation was that profitable (the criterion by which capitalist firms decide whether or not to invest in it) then capitalist firms would be investing more in it than they currently are.
Thanks. We should store these links somewhere so they don't have to be tracked down again. I think the same person had a Spanish version of the site too but I wouldn't know how to start finding it.Bataille socialiste has not disappeared into the archives like the other one. It still exists. It's just that nothing more is being added to it. The sympathiser who used to run it is still around, occasionally "liking" something on our facebook page.
I thought you were a computer whizz-kid. Anyway here's what you were trying to post:
Quote:An enquiry from Facebook:"Hi there. I've been reading an issue of the Socialist Standard (February 2017) and I've just read one of your articles on Amadeo Bordiga ("Early Bordiga and electoral activity"). The quotes in the piece will be very very helpful for my dissertation that I'm writing on the revolutionary left and corbyn (i talk about your stance on him). But the problem is I search the quote on google and I can't find it anywhere – it just links me back to the article. But if it's to be taken seriously academically I'll need to find the original source.Is there any possibility that you could either get me in touch with the author or find out where they got their references from? i'd be very appreciative, thanks."Only took me 30 secs. He is being put in touch with the Italian comrade who wrote the article and translated the quotes.
This will be a reference to a French-language site run by someone who agreed with us 100%, i.e. more than a sympathiser, between 2001 and 2008 or 2009. The link is: http://www.democratie-socialiste.org but you'll have to use the Way Back Machine to see it. We've got a paper version anyway and some of the material is in the French-language section of the World Socialist Movement site. It was a one-man show and stopped when he felt he could no longer carry on. I might contact him to see if he can be revived.There are a number of other sympathisers in France not connected with this, in particular the person who runs this site and page:https://bataillesocialiste.wordpress.com/limpossibilisme-anglo-saxon/
MBellemare wrote:Not an anarchist…lol! Just pick up "The structural-anarchism manifesto" at Amazon.UK.Yes, but what sort of anarchist? Are you a "communist anarchist" who wants to see the means of production owned and operated in common, with the abolition of production for sale, money, banks, credit, etc? Or are you one of those anarchists who envisage the abolition of the state but the continuation of a market economy in some form?
There was a light-hearted programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning about Lucian, including a mention of his satire on the christians of his day and a claim that this was an earlier version of The Live of Brian:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0910n6sHe was a good bloke who should be better known.
Each capitalist firm making the same rate of profit is also of course an "equilibrium" position, tending to be brought about as capital flows in search of higher profits flows out of one industry and into another, but it's one which is never reached as things are changing all the time. Nevertheless it's the tendency.
The meeting did take please yesterday evening, though it took us 20 minutes to get past security. 15 people there including 5 members. Discussion more about Russian Revolution than socialist revolution, with them challenging the view that it should be judged by its results and not by what it said it was doing. Ironically, they think Russia under Stalin was a system of State slavery, i.e something worse than capitalism. Ironic because that makes its outcome even worse. We said it was still capitalism because it was based on wage-labour and that the result of the anti-feudal Russian Revolution of which the Bolshevik coup was a point had been to spread the wages system and production for profit in Russia, and that in event the Russian Revolution, as a minority-led revolution that led to minority class rule, was not a model to follow. The discussion on our (and Marx's later) position was: what was more likely and sensible — using the ballot box or civil war? A no-brainer of course. Not that they practice what they preach, i.e weapon training was not part of their University and they're all in the Labour Party.Three of us stayed on afterwards for a drink in their canteen. Discussion on Chris Knight's theory of the origin of our species. Apparently they accept it. Personally I think (and said) that Chris Harman won the argument with Knight, despite being an SWPer.
Not the AV committee in particular but more than one committee. Same applies to Socialist Standard Committee , Publications Committee, Election Committee. Best to have just one committee in charge of actually putting stuff on. That was my point.
Vin, please lay off the Internet Committee. Like yourself, they are volunteers doing work for the Party in their free time, key work actually, such as maintaining and running this site which is taking the place of the Standard as our flagship. Continually sniping at them doesn't help. The same applies to those running our Facebook page.In any event, what you are suggesting would open the door to chaos. It makes sense to have one committee in charge of the whole site, not individual committees or individual members adding stuff that might not necessarily fit into the whole. The same principle applies to the computers at Head Office: only one person can upload new programmes. That's the efficient way of doing things.
