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Here's four ideasA mobile friendly version of viewing the forum from my phone or tablet,Greater availability of SPGB pamphlets/ texts as ebooks on Amazon Kindle etc.a digital distribution platform for the Socialist Standard such as iTunes of Google PlayPublic meetings with special guest speakers via SkypeNot sure whether these are old hat or ahead of the curve.Either way they'd be an improvement in my opinion.
Haha, well spotted. Still prefer traditional type statues. Here's a question, will there be statues in socialism?
We should resist the temptation for blueprints or ready made plans. A lot of members like to play at this utopian world-building but it is divisive and exclusive of those who don't share your plan. We should leave it to the Zeitgeist Movement. Or as William Morris put it
Quote:The only safe way of reading a utopia is to consider it as the expression of the temperament of its author. So looked at, Mr. Bellamy's utopia must be still called very interesting, as it is constructed with due economical knowledge, and with much adroitness; and of course his temperament is that of many thousands of people. This temperament may be called the unmixed modern one, unhistoric and unartistic; it makes its owner (if a Socialist) perfectly satisfied with modern civilisation, if only the injustice, misery, and waste of class society could be got rid of; which half-change seems possible to him. The only ideal of life which such a man can see is that of the industrious professional middle-class man of to-day purified from their crime of complicity with the monopolist class, and become independent instead of being, as they now are, parasitical. It is not to be denied that if such an ideal could be realised, it would be a great improvement on the present society. But can it be realised?ALB wrote:What all 2 and three quarter hours !Interstellar which came out a month ago was over 2 and three quarter hours. Its not unusual and it doesn't seem to put people off.
Vin wrote:I think this is only the start of a media campaign against him. One can only imagine what they will accuse him of. Eating babies?That sounds more like the hyperbole of Russell Brand. Brand is well in with much of the media, or else what would we be writing him an open letter for?
The SPGB position is that the working class do need a political party to contest political power. Sabotaging water meters however is something any community can do.
Chris Rock is definitely funnier than Brand but he is a supporter of Obama who campaigns closely with him.
Here's another examplehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857235/SamCam-leaves-Number-10-mornings-cook-breakfast-rough-sleepers-David-Cameron-reveals-volunteering-drive.html
alanjjohnstone wrote:i think one point should be high-lighted, that the UKIP politics are being validated by all the mainstream parties, despite their caveats and attempts to distance themselves from UKIP, so there fore the public perception is that UKIP are basically correct and so also the more honest and probably the more likely to fulfil their promises.I think you've hit the nail on the head here, when the Tories call Ukip fruitcakes and loons, then promise a tougher stance on immigration they belie their own credibility and hand it over to Ukip.
Actually I'm not even sure if I am using those terms correctly but yes it is a division that is not a class division.
windingriver wrote:ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!Thinking about this some more, I noticed two big omissions and wondered about why the OP didn't declaim AMERICA FOR THE AMERICANS, EUROPE FOR THE EUROPEANS. Who would that mean to say AMERICA FOR THE AMERICANS anyway? Stranger still when you consider these are two of the more historically successful regions but also the least ethnically homogenous. Perhaps 'Diversity' is a code word for success rather than 'white genocide'.
