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Plenty of police would have been marshalling this demonstration. I suppose it would have been a bit awkward for you to approach a copper – one of these uncomradely social-catastrophes has lifted my iPhone, I demand you nick the lot of ’em!
Ironic really. The Chinese police know how to deal with the light-fingered.
There was a time when SPGBer’s attended demonstrations to let the demonstrators know they (the demonstrators) were wasting their time. Now the SPGB join in. Is there no party discipline?The future looks to be a wee bit foggy if that graph(?) is anything to go by.’Doomster’.The name sort of gives it away. What is the difference between this joker and those fellows in days of yore who would tramp the streets carrying placards bearing the legend ‘Prepare To Meet Thy Doom’?
They are online.
Relax.There is no climate emergency.If capitalism is the cause of war, why is it most south american capitalist nations manage to get along without resorting to arms every now and then? Most african armies are either clobbering the locals, fighting rebels or overthrowing the current regime. Wars between african states are rare. It is a minority of capitalist states who go to war, and it is usually the same ones.
Propertarians would argue that the truly capitalist way to capture a market is to provide a cheaper, better commodity. Gunboats are used by gangsters and racketeers.
You can scrutinise Marx’s economic writings until your eyes ache and you wont find the cause of war in them.
There is no difficulty in imaging capitalism without wars. War is not needed for capitalism to continue and progress.Two-Way Stretch.
Scene: The prison rock quarry.
Convict: Please Sir, I’ve broken me ‘ammer.
Chief Warder Kraut (Lionel Jeffries): Leanin’ on it I suppose.
Convict: No, si-
Kraut: Silence! when you’re talkin’ to me!Best film ever.
The letter in the latest Weekly Worker from Arthur Bough demolishes (not for the first time) Michael Robert’s argument.
The SPGB line on inflation is vindicated (by a CPGBer).
Never doubted it for a moment.It is Engels who comments on the ideas of Ricardo and Mill. Beginning of chapter 34 and page 680 of the Pengiun addition.
What they say is very much like the SPGB understanding of inflation, and Engels rubbishes it.
The SPGB argument is woefully wrong, wrong, wrong!Merely going on Marx’s comments in volume three on the monetary theories of both men. Mill, it appears, was deeply suspicious of the pound note. Always rather liked them myself.
Roberts seems to confuse a (temporary?) rise in prices due to ‘the restriction of supply, both in production and transportation’, something that goes on all the time in capitalism, (and which governments have little or no control over) with an annual rise in the general price level due to a government depreciating the currency. Two different things.
The SPGB argument is spot on.The article on inflation by Michael Roberts in the latest Weekly Worker makes no mention of an excess issue of notes and coins as the explanation for inflation. Paul Mattick was of the same opinion.
The SPGB account looks like that put forward by Ricardo and JS Mill, both dismissed by Marx.Rod Hull dies in an unexplained accident breaking his crown after falling off a ladder while fiddling with his TV aerial. About the same time this ‘Camilla Parker-Bowles’ person mysteriously turns up. No one ever these two people in the same room at the same time.
My old peepers will be glued to the telly this Saturday. I don’t want to miss seeing Emu wrestling with the monkey on the stick.Steele was responsible for that frenzied toe-tapper ‘Little White Bull’ unleashed onto an unsuspecting public in 1957. It topped the charts at number 6. He abandoned Socialism and embraced Propertarianism after reading Ludwig Von Mises between ‘takes’ during the filming of the 1967 Hollywood blockbuster ‘Arthur Sixpence’.
On my last visit to the colonies I had the tremendous pleasure of meeting Sasquatch (to whom, incidentally, I am distantly related on my mother’s side). He told me a simply marvelous story about Harold Acton and Gertude Stein. Though I now forget the exact details. I urged him to stand for President. He bummed a ten dollar bill off me and said he would think about it.
