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Even if they took the time to read the Leaflet the SPGB would be written off as cranks by 99% of workers. The minute they read the word “Socialism” it’s the kiss of death.
But that’s not at all true.
67 per cent of young Brits want a socialist economic system, finds new poll
Those changes were not the result of the conscious actions of the world’s population. How could they be? There were no means in place (videre licet, universal suffrage), to record the collective will, even in the extremely improbable likelihood one even existed.
You’ve made a silly slip up here. Something existing is not dependent on the possibility of it being recorded or measured. Obviously you know that.
But anyhow, a shift in the use of technology (BTW I can’t see how that can occur ‘unconsciously’, without people being aware of it), is different from a political shift in how a society organises itself. Technological determinism isn’t a useful way to understand politics.
Saito’s book “Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth” was published in English in January of this year. I guess that’s why he is appearing in places such as the Intellegence Squared podcast which do a have broad listenership. Can only be a good thing that some of these ideas, such as his conception of communism, are getting a wider airing.
I glad the conservatives, especially in their current BNP mode, are on the way out. But what follows from them will of course only be marginally different. Though marginal differences affect those on the margins most.
How much better these marginal differences will be for workers we will have to see. They will be inheriting a bad situation.
Schadenfreude is a hollow type of happiness.
But hasn’t it been seen to be a threat in the Middle East, South America and Africa?
The only way you can speak of “fascism” in these places is by using a broader definition than the one used in the quote above.
Like I said orignally, it’s all about how you define it.
Reading:
Roger Eatwell, Fascism: A History, 2003Giovanni Gentile & Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932
David Renton’s 2020 “Fascism: History and Theory” is worth reading too. And no, he doesn’t think MAGA is best described as “fascist”.
As with all these things, it depends how you define it.
In Spain the military leaders who led the uprising against The Second Republic were not members of the Fascist party, The Falange. The Fascist movement played a secondary and subordinate role, with their party eventually being taken over by the Francoists.
Yeah sounds great. I mean I can’t see any problems arising from a society that has a legally enforceable right to rape. Which is what is being described above.
The problem with incels is mostly with themselves, they have developed a strange and toxic mix of both self-entitlement and self-loathing.
Isn’t the word “nerd” applied to anyone who is interested in anything other than pop culture and sport?
So, in order to avoid being called a nerd, one must limit oneself to pop culture and sports and not associate with anyone whose mind aspires to more than that.No it’s not that. You can definitely be a ‘sports nerd’, as in someone who has an obsessive knowledge about some aspect of sports.
But in recent years this word has definitely been reclaimed, you can find many people proudly proclaiming themselves to be nerds about one thing or another, and have social circles built around this.
A counsellor on the NHS told me that if i ever hoped for a girlfriend, i should start watching football and drinking beer.
I think they were indirectly suggesting that you need to get out, develop social skills, and meet people – rather than telling you to get drunk. But to be fair, this kind of advice is about as useful as telling an overweight person they need to eat less. I.e Not very useful at all.
I don’t know how interested other people are in listening to this kind of thing, but this podcast episode seems like a good summary of Hannah Arendts ‘The Banality of Evil’. One of the themes of this book, which doesn’t get taught often, is the two-way compliance between Zionists and anti-semites during the holocaust.
One thing this shows the negative human effects of the profit driven social-media algorithms. It would be quite easy for isolated and frustrated individuals to get drawn into a feedback loop, where everything they see is a self-reinforcing echo-chamber of misogynistic and destructive viewpoints.
Could such a thing as easily manifested in the pre-internet days?
They wanted to ban TikTok way before the current Israeli assault on Gaza started. It’s because of geo-political rivalry with China.
The Standard wasn’t banned from publishing in the wars years was it? I think some article were redacted though?
I presume you’re talking about Nick Bano, but he’s a housing lawyer from the UK and not a ‘tik-tok influencer’. Unless you mean someone from Australia mentioned him? His new book ‘Against Landlords’ is going through the review circuit at the minute. Might be worth reviewing or critically engaging with.
I probably haven’t read every comment in this thread. We know that Anti-Zionism is not (necessarily) anti-Semitic. But has there been much mention or discussion of anti-semitic Zionism? This explains right-wing evangelical Christian support for Zionism, for example.
