steve colborn
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I wish I'd have seen posts like Duncans years before I joined the Party, then I would have joined the Party, years before I actually did!!!I'm glad that we have the likes of Duncan Lucas, who are actually "real" revolutionaries, not like us, who are merely the "armchair" variety. I'm pleased that the years of going to demos, rallies, putting up posters, writing letters, speaking at meetings, doing debates, arguing with opponents, confronting our class enemies, was all just a Matrixian otherworld. If it had been "real", I woulda been knackered marra.But by being an armchair revolutionary, I at least I left all the "glory for you and yours, mate : ) Ain't I considerate?
. ‘Capitalism is the problem’ Readers' LettersPublished on the 18 February201512:16 0 comments Be the first to commentI CAN see where you’re going with your letter Mr Wiffin (‘Stranglehold of Labour’, Gazette, Feb 16) If, as I believe, you are positing getting UKIP elected, this is no choice either. The cause of the problems will remain: capitalism. UKIP, as with all the others – Tory, Labour, LibDem, Green etc – support this system of insanity!The idea is not, nor can it be, merely to change the organ grinders. We have to take possession of the organ into our own hands.Then, and only then, can we, as the majority, decide what tunes are played – tunes that will be in the interests of all mankind, not merely a tiny, select few.Steve Colborn,The Socialist Party,Ivy Avenue,Seaham,Letter Shields Gazette Wed 18th Feb.
Capitalism controls governments Readers' LettersPublished on the 11 February201511:19 0 comments Be the first to commentACTUALLY, David Ridley (Gazette, Feb 6), governments have no control over the economics they espouse! If capitalism is in a boom phase, governments claim success, and to be the ‘authors’ of this success.If capitalism is in one of its slump phases, governments throw up their hands and say ‘Not our fault, guv, it was the world economy what done it!’The latter is the cause of the good times and bad, full stop. Steve Colborn,The Socialist Party,Ivy Avenue,Seaham,Letter Shields Gazette Wed 11 Feb.
I wanted to stay out of this but the recent post by mod1 has forced my hand! I would suggest that before comrades make up their minds about the rights and wrongs here, they look at the posts made by "comrades" on spintcom and spopen, at the time, that villified 2 "ex" members who, by not then, being in the Party, had no redress from the vile, abusive things said, of them.Members will have to address their own sense of conscience, to decide if they were culpable. Or, we could just say, lets just be fucking "adults" and moreover treat posts on the Forum with our supposed intelligence, not be so fucking sensitive, give a bit of fucking leeway and get on with what we are here for, in the first instance, thats "right", advocating and working for SOCIALISM.No…. I'm not drunk, nor drugged up, just cheesed of, that a Party that prides itself on the its case "against" Capitalism and "for" Socialism, and the cogency of and for the same, cannot get itself sorted to allow free and open discussion on its Forum!!!
The guy who cries "Bin It" like a demented frog, a calls for action against another poster but whose posts do not incur a warning until someone else complains! I think Vin has at least a partial point!!! There does seem to be a bias at work here.
I'm as much against the Far Left, as I am against the Far Right! Anyone who supports Capitalism, under whichever banner, or from whichever wing of the Capitalist political spectrum, is my class and political enemy and is/will be treated as such.
A letter published on Fri 30th of Jan, in the Sunderland Echo, under the title; Socialism not the same as Labour.G Whitter, Echo Thurs 22nd Jan, is the latest correspondent to the Letters Pages of the Echo to misrepresent what "Socialism" really is.It isn't Nationalisation, nor can it be placed, or enacted within the boundaries of a single country. Socialism is and can only exist, within a world wide framework, to replace world wide Capitalism. It is a system of society, where what is produced, will be produced for direct "human use", not as at present, to be bought and sold for profit, for the benefit of a few.The means and instruments for producing what we, as humans need, will be owned by "us all" in common and as we all freely contribute to this production, we will all freely take of the resultant bounty.The above can be best summed up by the quote " 'From' each according to 'ability', 'to' each according to 'need' ".None of the above, nor indeed the many other ideas which encompass the Socialist ethos, can be linked in any way, shape or form to Labour, nor countries such as China, Cuba, N.Korea, nor indeed the old USSR. These were and are, supporters of Capitalism and share the classic indicators of the same.Just because some place false large ears and a trunk on an dog, it does not make it an Elephant. If it barks like a dog and growls like a dog, I've found it invariably is a dog!A lesson G. Whitter, J. Watson, M. Brown et al would do well to heed!!! Steve Colborn. Prospective Parliamentary Candidate,The Socialist Party.
Actually duncan, I am quite aware of the treatment of German POW's and the general population. As I am conversant with strategic decisions and outcomes and the reasons for successes/failures within strategic operations both allied and axis. But this debate, in actuality, has naff all to do with the "Martial War. This debate has to do with the "Class War" and when considering that, your obfuscation adds not one jot to the outcome. Making inaccurate statements re The Socialist Party does you discredit and detracts from The Socialist Partys case not one one iota. Nor does your wild and inaccurate claims/appeals, to be actually "doing something". What what have "you"/"they", actually achieved? Nothing! Workers conditions in many aspects are worse now than they were decades ago. Industrial relations are so one sided, as to make a mockery of the term "industrial relations". It is your chums in Labour and those within this gaggle, who claim the label of Socialist/ism, that need to be held to account. For all of their "control of power" over decades, they have achieved precisely, fuck all. No I lie, they have achieved the muddying of the waters about what Socialism/Communism really is!!!Finally, if you are the revolutionary you claim to be, a little cursing and swearing won't harm you, will it? It was not directed at you personally but is "my" feelings on how this system treats/treated, me and mine, which "your" support, tacit or otherwise has helped engender, Marra.
No one will "run Marxism in each country"! This is something I/We can agree with Marx on. There will be no "countries", just one world. There does not haveto be "leaders and followers"! unless that is, one is a "human sheep. In my experience, we workers are pretty good at organising things, we do, after all, run Capitalism from top to bottom! Or are you so deluded as to think that Cameron/Clegg and before them Blur/Prescott were the brains behind the organisation. Or perhaps these businesses and their leaders, Lord Sugar, are the dogs bollocks at running society?In Socialism, these Small/Large Businesses in the form they exist today, will not exist. All they will be, is productive units that belong to us all in common and will be used for the fulfillment of the needs of all.As has been explained to you till people are blue in the face, there will be no "Marxism or Comminist takeover of parliament, or any other "governing body". When the majority want and understand Socialism/Communism and just as importantly work together to bring it about, the Administration of people, will give way to the administration of "things". These things are the means/instruments for producing/distributing what we, as human beings need to live. Simples.
And btw Duncan, it wasn't Stalins political advisors that led to the deaths of "several" millions to the Nazis but Stalin himself who, paranoid and fearful of a Coup amongst the military, had thousands of Officers rounded up and killed, so removing the "cream" of the Russian military leadership and hamstringing the Army, in particular, in the year or so, after Adolf broke the non-aggression treaty he signed with Uncle Joe, with operation Barbarosa and the attempt to take the oil fields of the Caucuses. It was only with the reinstatement of the likes of Marshal Zukov and the total military ineptitude of Adolf himself (much like pompous windbag Churchill) that aided the Russians in turning the war around.As you are historically inaccurate about WW2, you went for the full house, when you stated "I realise your emblem is a tortoise and that it is one step at a time -SLOWLY and that you will change peoples minds over a long period". It is not by choice that it is taking a long time for people to come to the realisation, Capitalism can never be made to work in their interests. Rather than pointing the finger of blame at The Socialist Party, you can instead point it at Labour, SWP, Left Unity, SPEW ad infinitum and their ceaseless leading workers up the bkind alley of reforming Capitalism and also "YOUR" claim, that at least they are doing "something"! Aye, I'll tell you what they are doing, they are confusing the fucking picture so much, that no wonder workers cannot differentiate between a Socialist and a self-serving, smug arsewipe like Salmond or Comrade Sheridan!By the way mate. I don't imagine I'm in some sort of "University debate". I'm not some kind of Trendy Trot, or Saccharin Stalinist, I'm a guy who wants, no needs Socialism. I fucking want it now, as do the rest of my Comerades in The Socialist Party. So perhaps you'd do us all a favour and stop disseminating your Brand of Anti Socialist, pro State-Capitalist drivel, so that we can concentrate on working for Socialism/Communism, not on having to waste time stating what Socialism/Communism is not!! Cheers Marra.
Marxiam states that you will be "led" by a few Marxist intellectuals! What utter bollocks have you been reading Duncan? Because I can tell you, whatever it is, it's shite. Lenin did in fact advocate an intellectual revolutionary elite, to lead the masses Marx never did.So before you pour forth any more of this made up tripem please check your facts Marra.BTW, I'm not a "Marxist" per se. I agree with a lot of what Marx wrote, not all. Some is irrelevant today and has been superceded by history. I am, however, a Socialist/Communist and just as Marx, I use the terms interchangeably.So before you post again, please get your facts right!!!
So Duncan, you,ve lived Socialism and yet, you still consider that left unity provide a solution to workers problems? Your claim that they are "at least doing something" is spurious at best, dangerous to workers at worst! LU are simply the latest manifestation of muddled so-called Left Wing thinking.I've seen enough of the cul-de-sacs these shysters and others before them, have led the working class up, to know and dismiss their "meantime" shite.They offer, we do not. The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class themselves. No leaders, individually, or collectively. When/if you get sick of following buffoons, with their slogans of rightious indignation, with nothing between their ears but the clarion call of the barricade, we'll still be here!!!
