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My old mother was an extra in the 1960’s BBC docudrama The War Game, playing ‘dead housewife supine on the sidewalk’. Sadly, she was so badly charred it was impossible to distinguish her from the other corpses so her acting career ended there.
I wonder if capitalism’s ideologists adhere to some theory that it is no bad thing for the working class to have the Brad Pitts put up it every now and again, as some obscure means of social control or something. If so, I would like to hear the theory plainly stated.
To be fair to Steamer, on that leaflet you could swap his name for almost any bougeois politician in the ‘democracies’ and it would still make sense. Politicians are devious and power mad – who knew?
At a state dinner given for Nixon, a US diplomat asked Mao what would have happened if Khrushchev rather than Kennedy had been assassinated. Mao thought for a bit and replied: I don’t think Mr. Onassis would have married Mrs Khrushchev.
Although indifferent to the suffering of millions of peasants thanks to his agricultural policy, Mao did have a sense of humour.Bobby Moore ought to have been around in the early 1980’s. Cruise missiles at Greenham Common, Protect and Survive Booklets, one documentary and drama after another dealing with the delights of atomic warfare, SPGBer’s touring the land giving variations of the Is a Third World War Inevitable? lecture. I heard it from Cde. Skelton ( who always put me in mind of Esme Cannon). And there even an item on the teatime ITN news which entertained us with a description of the effects of a one-megaton airburst over central London ( it would ruin every Londoner’s day ). And we didn’t get the usual warning: the following programme may not be suitable for those of a nervous disposition!
Robbo is dead right of course, British and American Bolsheviks ( and Socialists ) who have gone over to become cheerleaders for capitalism are legion. My old mate McDonagh started out in the SPGB and ended up calling himself a Cobdenite Liberal. Mind you he was a nutcase. (McDonagh I mean, not Cobden ).
On the other hand, have you noticed if you meet a conservative toe-rag at seventeen you can put the mortgage on him still being a conservative toe-rag at seventy.
If there is one thing to be said for conservatives, they are consistent.For the sake of argument let us say Russia overruns all of the Ukraine. The US and Europe have up to now lent the Ukraine over a hundred billion dollars. With Russia in control that sum would be lost. The west have to stick with it to whatever grisly end to ensure it gets it’s money back. This may involve limited atomic fisticuffs.
The US entered the first Great War because J P Morgan had lent the British and French governments a billion dollars, and at one point it looked as though Germany might win, so the american working-class were sent in
to save Morgan’s money. The same thing will happen in the Ukraine with potentially unpleasant results.
So Moo has every right to be nervous.My old mate McDonagh would argue ( to anyone who would listen ) that, yes, America and Russia have enough atomic weaponry to wipe out the whole human race, but you can say the same thing about kitchen knives.
There is something deeply unsound about this argument but I’ve never been able to put me finger on it.
In my humble judgement Moo old boy, I wouldn’t go making any long term plans if I were you. The capitalist class might not like the idea of a world war, but those in government might see things differently, and they have far more autonomy than SPGB thinking ( merely the executive of the ruling class ) allows.Perhaps a week is a long time in politics. But one could go further.
Commander Shore: Anything can happen in the next half-hour!
‘Genocide’, another word being devalued by over and mis-use. The Israeli army is not looking to murder every last person calling themselves Palestinian.
What a pity capitalist society is not even more murderous than it actually is – think of all the many more leafleting opportunities it would provide!
If Starmer goes into the next General Election with the same poncified haircut he is sporting in that second film clip either he wont stand a chance or he will walk it.
No accounting for the taste of the working-class electorate.Begging the question ‘occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it’.
You probably mean ‘prompts’ or some variation.
This will earn a rebuke from a moderator but the misuse is everywhere.
