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Reaction from author Tim Di Muzio:
Quote:I wish I could say thank you for your review. But I can say thanks for bothering to read the book. So thanks.I'm sorry, however, that your are extremely misguided and it is people like you who fail to do proper research that keeps up the confusion around money and the problems faced by the working classes of this world.How we produce money in our society and how it is allocated is of incredible consequence for inequality and the future of the planet (e.g. what we invest in like energy/food/shelter etc).Your review gives me little hope that this one day might be addressed based on evidence rather than conjecture.Not only does Martin Wolf of the Financial Times recognize that banks create money out of thin air but so too does Positive Money (I wonder whether you even visited their site or read their literature) among many others who have bothered to actually do research rather than pontificate out of conjecture on the web.Moreover, I wrote my book in late 2013 early 2014, which Zed's production team did not get out until this year. What we have known for a while thanks to various statements, leaks and logic, has now been empirically confirmed and published in the peer reviewed journal: the International Review of Financial Analysis in late 2014 (when my book was already in press, hence it is not cited).It is written by Richard A. Werner from the London School of Economics which you may or may not be familiar with. As it turns out, banks do indeed create money out of thin air when they make a loan. It appears as an asset on their balance sheet and a (deposit) liability for the borrower. No reserves are checked with the central bank and money does not move from a saver to a borrower.I doubt you have seen or heard of the article or probably care given your penchant for Biblical Marxism and love of this 19th century economic religion.So Robert, given the evidence (of which you martial absolutely none) the bad news is that your review is bad…really bad.In an honest world, after you've actually considered the evidence you'd retract your review, or at least amend it. But following the Church of Marx and blind faith might be easier for you.I just wish you'd stop spreading confusion. Cheers mate,TimReport of ecohustings in Oxford last Tuesday here (with photos of candidates):https://oxfordecohustings.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/oxford-west-abingdon-hustings-report/Today's issue of The Oxford Student has an 8-page pull-out supplement on the election with statements from most of the candidates in Oxford, including our two. Also photos, except the one of Kevin is not of him (but then the face doesn't count). Not yet online.We're getting 200-300 audiences here in Oxford too as last night in Summertown.Number of recorded hits from Oxford on our website is only 83 compared with Brighton's 190+ but one conclusion of the election already is that we were right to target Brighton and Oxford.
Here's a recreation of one of our candidates in lego (this might mean we will need to change "it's the case not the face" to "it's the logo not the lego"):http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32531812Incidentally, this shows what the ballot paper will look like with our name and (for the first time for us) an emblem. Presumably it will be the same in other 9 constituencies.
What's Mike going to reply to a similar letter from someone who says they're a supporter of Oxford United? Hardly in the same league as Man United.
I agree. He played the anti-Tory card so much that he was almost calling for an anti-Tory vote. Miliband must be quite pleased, though I suspect most of Brand's following will vote Green.. And he failed to challenge Miliband's pitch for gradualist refformism. And what this new word: Euphoria or is it Euforia or even Uforia?Anyway here it is for 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDZm9_uKtyo
I see Left Unity are only fielding 10 candidates, the same as us. Confirmation of Stuart's view that they are just another small leftwing party and not the mass party of the left-of-Labour they originally envisaged.
Young Master Smeet wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000788Unless someone else is standing in Penge, Ian is there…This has now been amended to show that he is not actually standing. In fact, Class War are only contesting 7 seats according to this list:http://cpgb.org.uk/may2015candidates.html
There's actually a seventh event today — another hustings in Oxford:http://www.stmargaretsoxford.org/calendar/1780/election-hustings-in-the-hall-at-st-edwards-s-schoolAs our candidate there will be speaking at another meeting at the same time we'll be sending a representative as the other parties have sometimes done.We've also got invites to two hustings for students tomorrow. One in Wadham College at 5pm (in Oxford East, so Kevin will be there), the other in St Hugh's College at 7pm (in Oxford West, so Mike will be there). It's not clear if these are open to the general public but certainly are to students from other colleges.Also tomorrow the same half-page advert will be in the Morning Star as was last Friday (we got two for the price of one).
Young Master Smeet wrote:Hmm, speaking of personal styles. I just sent this reply, without mentioning that Soccer is obviously an inferorir football code. oh, the discipline of being a party candidte:You only got a question about soccer. Our Brighton candidates had one on "roller derby". If you don't know what that is (neither did I) there's an explanation here:http://brightonbrats.com/2015/04/29/ge2015/Scroll down to Brighton Kemptown to see Jacqueline's reply:
Quote:Jacqueline Shodeke, Socialist Party of Great Britain: “Hi. I’m just standing for socialism and not making promises on any subject because we’re not running the sort of campaign where parties say “Vote for us and we’ll do this or that for you”. So all I can say is that amateur sport is good, and that in a socialist society all sports will be amateur, since it will be a society without money and its corrupting influence on everything including sport.”Oxford Friends of the Earth have published on their site the answers of candidates standing in the two Oxford constituencies (but none from UKIP):http://www.foe.co.uk/groups/oxford/campaigns/General-Election-2015Note the utopian reformism of the TUSC candidate in Oxford East. It looks as if he really believes what he says (and is not just putting cynical "transitional demands" before workers), so confirming our view that if you play the reformist game you end up as one.
ALB wrote:Let's see if I have more success in uploading those we've got from Vauxhall and Oxford East.Done it but might leave it to the professionals next time:https://electionleaflets.org/leaflets/11528/
Actually, from an economic popint of view, de-nationalisation was really inter-nationalisation, i.e allowing "foreign" capital to invest in them.
jondwhite wrote:Despite claiming revolutionary credentials he's dismissed communism as crazy,Where has he done this? I read or heard him say that "sharing" was "communism" (or vice versa). A bit vague, but not saying it's crazy. Just found it. It's on page 289 of his book Revolution:
Quote:Socialism isn't a dirty word, it just means sharing; really it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.You are right, but I don't think much of the photo of the one from Brighton Kemptown. Let's see if I have more success in uploading those we've got from Vauxhall and Oxford East. Can't do the one for Swansea as the only one we have at the moment has "junk mail" scrawled across it.I see Vin (and others) can tweet these leaflets when uploaded ….
gnome wrote:More information has been added to the meetyournextmp site, including the provision of links to the party's website and Wikipedia page. Only three candidates, however, have party election addresses uploaded to their pages.Actually, only one election address is there (for Easington). The other two are CVs.We don't actually have copies of what Royal Mail delivered (or didn't) as these were sent direct to them by our printers. So we need a mimimum of two or three, one for our archives and a couple to send to universities which have collections of all election leaflets. So far, we got at Head Office, 3 from Oxford East and 1 from Vauxhall but we know that members have collected some in Islington and Swansea. So, if anyone reading this has some for these and the others can they send them on to Head Office. Thanks.
