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At this point either ALB or Robbo step in to reassure Sir Thomas all will be well.
Getting a bit samey this thread.ME sounds something like neurasthenia which was fashionable from the middle of the 19th century until the late Edwardian period. Nietzsche described it as a feeling of ‘fedupness’. Lenin mentions it somewhere. It only affected middle-class women who did no work ( imagine a proletarian going to her boss and telling him she was feeling a bit ‘fragile’today -down the road for you my girl!).
It wasn’t ‘cured’ as their was nothing physically wrong with these women. It just became unfashionable.
As Dave Perrin recognised, Furedi does have some pertinent things to say about the wackiness of modern capitalist social relations.
Monbiot, and the paper he writes for, are a prime example of this oddness.What about Senator Lyndsey Graham’s analysis? In a nutshell – it’s all about the loot. No socialist can argue with that.
Was it Woolworth’s? I worked in their broken-biscuit mines, (remember when they sold loose broken-biscuits?) Any road up, I hamstrung this overseer who was getting on me wick and sent to fight in the arena.
Cut a long story short, this tall black fellow called Woody, had me down and was about to plunge his trident through me chest when he saw something in me face, don’t know what, but it saved me life. He turned and hurled the trident at the managing director who was sat in a balcony seat with a couple of tarts. The trident missed, so my opponent leapt toward them…uh, hang on a minute. This is the plot to Spartacus isn’t it?
I did once apply for a job at Woolworth’s though.
Didn’t get it.Clause 8 of your Declaration of Principles states: The Socialist Party of Great Britain, therefore, enters the field of political action etc. Not ‘The Socialist Party’.
I cam confirm Lew’s account of that debate. Barry McNeeny revealed that it was ICC policy to establish a sort of ‘Cheka’. The ICC speaker looked as if he had soiled himself and one of their members in the audience went into hysterics (a woman). If she had tried anything on with me I would have knocked her block off.
What’s disappointing about this latest world war scare is that it hasn’t produced, as far as I am aware, one half-decent tune to sing-a-long to.
The cubist missile crisis gave us ‘Talking World War Three Blues and ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ from Blob Dylan, (Bryan Ferry did a great cover of that) and in the early eighties we were entertained by, among others, the Jam’s ‘Going Underground’. And there were plenty more. My favourite was ‘Final Day’ by the Young Marble Giants.
I don’t know if Sir Thomas plays a musical instrument…The Americans had something like this in the fifties. Schoolchildren being taught to ‘duck and cover’. No need for the US government to instruct folk in the use of firearms of course.
Sir Thomas ought to cultivate the insouciance of the working class. Blithely (if that’s not the same thing as insouciant) unaware of what could happen to them, they plod on with their mundane everyday lives. Bertie Russell when he was setting up CND lamented the conservatism and apathy of the ‘common people’ ( Russell was an aristocrat) who were unwilling to ‘acquiesce in their own survival’.
If the worst comes to the worst they will be just as dead as Sir Thomas, but unlike him they wont have fretted about things beforehand. So in a sense they win.And the Labour government is to rush through parliament this so-called ‘assisted dying’ bill. Do you think it knows something we don’t?
The quote from Robert Hallam could be a paraphrase from Mr Hitler’s ‘My Struggle’ penned when he was doing time in chokey. Although he never used the word ‘backfiring’. Slopping out didn’t get him down either, and look what he went on to achieve.Something quite horrible admittedly, but it proved he was no quitter, and neither is Mr Hallam.
