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August 13, 2022 at 1:10 am in reply to: Anti-war and anti-imperialist but not anti-capitalist #232145
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ParticipantThe United National Antiwar Coalition is affiliated to – maybe even a front for – the Workers World Party. Not saying he’s a member or a fellow-traveller of the WWP. He might just be a useful idiot for them.
Though the WWP has it historic roots in the American Socialist Workers Party, they’re best described as tankies at this point.
Not a fan.
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ParticipantYou might want to retitle it. People might not realise that ‘SS AUGUST 2022 web’ is a PDF.
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ParticipantA genuine question: why do you think it’s painful to read the website version?
PS – There is a PDF of this month’s Socialist Standard. Someone sent me a copy.
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ParticipantSurely an album review deserved its own separate page?
If only to mark the fact that it’s only the fifth album review in 1415 issues of the Socialist Standard.
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ParticipantThe only reason Mr Blobby would have got more votes is because he once appeared on the front cover of the Socialist Standard.
That aside, DJP makes a fair point which I happen to agree with.
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ParticipantI have some sympathy for that reformist demand.
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ParticipantSuch a wanky nickname for a book.
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ParticipantWhat the world’s been waiting for: the 20 most viewed articles on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog in 2021:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-word-from-your-sponsor.html
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ParticipantRoss Bradshaw sent me that link two weeks ago. My bad that I did not pass it on.
I think Andrew Whitehead cribbed that comment about Jack Fitzgerald from the SPGB wiki page. You wouldn’t get that idea of Fitzgerald simply from reading old bound volumes of the Standard.
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ParticipantI always welcome these uploads as an opportunity to listen back to my own contributions during the discussions, so that I can curl up in embarrassment, whimpering to myself: ‘What the hell was I thinking when I said that?’
It keeps me humble.
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ParticipantThe current number one read on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog:
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ParticipantJust read this article this morning in a not so old Socialist Standard.
The Labour Party shagging the flag is like flared trousers: it comes back into fashion every 10 or 12 years:
Manufacturing Britishness (2008)
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ParticipantI haven’t experienced any difficulties on the website.
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ParticipantThanks for your Ted Talk.
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Participant“So you are for the Loony Left?
That is what they’re all about: erasing and silencing.”
Yeah, you got me bang to rights.
I live in the States and I had to look up the Cervantes statue story. It was not a big news story over here. So, some ignorant numpties defaced a statue not knowing who he was . . . or maybe they did, and they defaced it out of frustration ‘cos – like me – they couldn’t finish Don Quixote.
It’s not on a par with these muppets from 2000 but it is facepalm funnier, I guess:
Paediatrician attacks ‘ignorant’ vandals
PS – for the hard of hearing – I’m not in favour of ‘cancel culture’ but neither am I in favour of right-wing culture war talking points either. In many cases I think there are wankers on both sides who are birds of a feather.
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