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Thomas Moore may have been slightly annoying but when there’s only four people posting to a forum do we really have to worry about derailment? Not that I particularly care, this is really just a form of procrastination for me.
“The traditional view of an educated, historically aware working class must then be abandoned, to be replaced with a different scenario: some kind of spontaneous explosion whereby the historically ignorant become united through necessity, not knowledge.”
I think that’s what they call “communisation” these days..
Cuddling is now considered a form of sex.
I’m not sure who told you that, but I think they may have been trying to fob you off!
competitive and serious? Not just play and fun?
I’m sure those who engage in “competitive and serious” sport get something out of it because it is competitive and serious that they wouldn’t if it was not. As to if people in the future would choose to organise sport in this way or not – I don’t really care!
Why shouldn’t sports be unisex?
I don’t think anyone has a problem with people choosing to form unisex sporting leagues.
Some people have a problem with trans-women being admitted into women leagues in that it goes against the point of wanting such leagues in the first place. I.e to compensate for the fact that people born male tend to be taller, heavier and have a higher muscle mass etc.
can’t we all just take a neutral stance?
Depends who you mean by “we all”. I’m not sure if the socialist party needs to take a position one way or another. But there are seemingly insoluble conflicts of interest here, I don’t think everyone will ever agree.
What jars me off is the “we are morally correct and if you disagree you are a fascist” brigade.
Is this the same group as was active in the 1990s in various attempts to stop motorways and by-passes being built (all of which failed)? We even debated with them.
No. That group doesn’t exist anymore and hasn’t for a long time. This new group is called reclaim *these* streeets.
Young people? Getting into a debate with them is definitely a step too far!
On the subject of anniversaries, It’s 150 years since the Paris Commune this year too. Lots of events happening over the spring. Not sure if travel will be allowed by then though…
If anyone hasn’t seen it there was a decent Russian documentary made on the uprising a few years back:
It’s also on YouTube but the subtitles are only available on auto-translate mode, so a bit sketchy.
Actually, maybe there’s more of a link between Kronstadt and “gender identity” than random comments from Mr KAZ. This is the type of thing that happens in one of the forts these days:
Jordan I agree with you on your comments in #214983 and #214986
this idea of there being some “inner you” is completely incompatible with marxism at the moment.
I’m not sure I know precisely what you mean here. You think that because Marx talked about historical materialism that means that we can’t talk about mental states, intentions, agency etc?
When people say they feel extreme discomfort in their own body and “feel like” a member of the opposite sex they are trying to communicate something. You think we should just tell them they’re talking nonsense?
