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He kind of had to be selfobsessed because no one else even remembered who he was. When they came to London, everyone remembered Lenin as “that intense guy” and Stalin as “that polite guy”(!). Trotsky was “…”
Lumme lawks, mister 1904. you’re on an obscuro roll today. Is that a novel or an actual book though? Looks like it’s nonfiction to me. It’s a bit unnecessary because Leon was such a selfobsessed goit that he’s left minute descriptions of every shit he took throughout his life. “Chapter 5: My New York bowel movements.”
County councils run certain services in the historic counties outside any large cities there. Some of these elections have been suspended while the Labour government introduces the undemocratic mayor-system instead.
that’s interesting. i don’t keep up with bourgeois politics but the slaver party’s getting in more gauleiters? bit like them police commissioners innit. no one votes in the election and the guy that’s elected is some random nonce with no power. the police then rape and murder whoever they want. but “democratic control”.
[Moderator note] The theme of this thread is the recent riots and the response, I’ll remove any more posts on the topic of conspiracies (unless they directly relate to the riots).
lumme lawks! i fink that was for the perfesser. sad face (can’t find how to do them here). still awaiting my telling orf. how about for badly grammar? poor spelling? not using capital letters (capital letters are capitalist! upper case is upper class!)?
foreign influence on the riots?
china? nah. no money in it.
the rooshuns? possibly. the fuhrage has had money from them in the past and is known for opposing the war in ukraine. destablisation? yeah but this is strengthening the government’s case for a police state. anyone that might balk at five year sentences for civil disobedience is not going to give a shit about throwing the book at greggs boy. what’s in it for pootin?
the yanks? yeah, you betcha. nige has just been over to see the orange plague. fermenting race hatred is just up his street. treat this as a step towards a rightwing (faragist) takeover of the conservative party and the country at the next election.
so, waddya reckon on my latest conspiracy theory that these riots were preplanned by the government? race riots crop up at ten year intervals since the neoliberals took over in 1979: 1981 brixton; 1991 meadow well; 2001 oldham; 2011 tontingham. this one being out of sequence due to covid. and there was something mighty iffy about fires and looting. when i’ve been on demos someone only needs to fart out of tune and the coppers are on you like flies on shit. come on now, it’s always the same, the government’s to blame. amirite?
(btw: can i have a waggly finger too? please! i wanna be with jimbo and essexboy in the incrowd. i never been trendy before. except that one time when i was ten and was the only kid in the school with a leatherjacket. the fact that it smelt of poo was besides the point.)
misread that link there. thought it were “battlescarred” fighting the fash in plimaf. to your zimmerframes chumrades. to be fair, the lad is a “junior member” (two stars) who’ll be in about five minutes before he finds out our average age is six months less than the spugub average age.
BBCodes. corblimey. never evened heard of thems before. like timetravel. back to the nineties innit (the bit i slept through). anyway, fixed the sentence for you (not very well as them BBCodes is a bit crap).
slavery. an economic issue. the american revolution – a clash between rival capitalisms. just like the american civil war. progressive? proschmessive. nowt to choose between them.
well, i did say, as have others, that horne’s incorrect. or, rather, coming at it from the wrong angle. the british were certainly a potential threat to the established practices of the settlers, such as slavery and settlement, but other economic interests took priority. the most notable error is that the timing’s wrong. the clapham sect (snigger) wasn’t formed by wilberforce and co until 1785 – ten years after independence. and the proclamation line was basically a dead letter from the start. evil bastards the americans undoubtedly were (and are) but slavery was a minor factor, at best, in 1776.
the same applies to the development of capitalism in general. asserting the contrary is kowtowing to the idpol zeitgeist. what next? the spgb backing reparations? a shopping and fashion (sorry “feminist”) column in the standard?
the pritish hempire not gone? pull the other one squire! ukland has been a protectorate of the american empire since 1945. since brexit, it’s been upgraded to a full on colony, under complete social, economic and political control of washington. its influence in the world, separate from its imperial overlords, is zero.
Gerald Horne’s main drive in “The Counter-Revolution of 1776” is that the American Revolution was actually a counter revolution directed against the real revolutionaries – the *abolitionist* British Empire (not slave owners versus slave traders). It’s an anti-Marxist position. Marxists view 1776 as a historically progressive bourgeois democratic revolution. Of course, both points of view are wrong. Viewing the creation of the USA, a bastion, throughout its life, of owning class privilege, as a positive development is ludicrous. On the other hand, making race, divorced from class, the focus, as Horne does, is an idealistic conceit, if an understandable one. The real drive in history is always economic – if you want to know the truth look at whose pocket the money’s going in. However, since the British Empire is dead and gone and the American Empire, the self same state set up in 1776, now the foremost proponent and practitioner of fundamentalist capitalism, is very much alive and kicking shit across the world, I, for one, heap praise upon Professor Horne’s noble sable brow. Yes, Professor, an irredeemably evil racist state from its birth.
