Thomas_More
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Although rare, i’m afraid i have to agree here with Wez.
I also think the Standard’s two-parter on Freud and Marxism by Comrade Blewitt (?) years ago was superb.Signs point to Russia gearing up for ‘large-scale’ conflict with NATO, thinktank says – https://news.sky.com/story/russia-ukraine-war-latest-putin-election-live-updates-sky-news-blog-12541713?postid=7415155#liveblog-body
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/21/putin-now-openly-planning-for-war-against-nato/
I don’t think capitalism was ever seen as a utopian dream, except for the merchant class, themselves a minority.
The masses were never fully conscious of their role, or “destiny”, in any of the social upheavals, although they were aware of their poverty and immediate needs. It was always easy for opportunists to be carried by the majority and then divert social energy and rage so as to benefit their own, minority, interest.
As capitalist society has advanced, it has created psychological and emotional obstacles to its overthrow, even as it becomes more ravaging and rapacious.
The overwhelming power of the centralised state. Nationalism. The erosion, in fact, of class consciousness. Educational dumbing down of everything that is of no concern to profit. It creates the paradox of mass ignorance and mental deterioration alongside advanced technology and industry.Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism and Listen, Little Man! both address the propensity of the mass of the proletariat to idolize and to follow, and to actively hate those who do not join the majority in this.
The enlistment of not only social frustrations but also of sexual ones is also elucidated.
https://news.sky.com/story/george-stinneys-sister-says-he-was-innocent-10420411
Electrocuted at age 14.
How did he do it?
How did he revert Russia to a dictatorship after the 1990s?It seems to have just crept up on the population without them being aware of it.
So, war on Russian workers who want to flee from Putin’s Russia!
(Whilst always saying there is no ill-will toward the common people of Russia!)Attn Wez. Regarding your remark on my “beloved animals’ revenge”, i have just come across this piece in the Standard which shows how our fates are all connected:
“The Same Old Lethal Delusion
“An elderly tired man and his dog walk for miles out of Mariupol. They walk by burned out buildings and over the rubble of bombed roads. All around them is burning and devastation.
“An old lady bent over her shopping trolley pushes it to a sparsely stocked grocer’s. She lives on the frontier and has heard neighbours abuse her as the ‘enemy.’ A man and his family flee from the bombardments. He carries his crippled German Shepherd over his shoulder, struggling with the weight; but he will not leave his dog behind.
“This writer cannot ignore the plight of the other animals caught up in this misery, for they are part of, not separate from, the human tragedy.
“There are innumerable true and personal stories in this war, swallowed up in the overall suffering of thousands, and most will never be known. They do not interest those who are blasé about war; who talk about advances and retreats, ‘victories’ and defeats, strategic interests and geopolitics.
“We socialists are never blasé about war. We know as members of the world’s working class that to participate in the murder of each other at the behest of our exploiters is to be deluded.
“With capitalism in overdrive, poisoning the Earth, threatening life with extinction (including the human race), destroying climate balance, pushing us all militarily toward nuclear annihilation, it has never been more urgent for us, the world’s working class – who form 99 percent of the human population – to unite and democratically get rid of the world capitalist system before it gets rid of all of us. Yet in the midst of global disaster, we are still doing the bidding of the 1 percent’s obsession with profit and capital accumulation. This includes fighting their wars, killing one another, in the delusion that we have ‘countries’ to kill and die for. The same old lethal delusion.
“We urge the workers of Ukraine and of Russia, and of all places in bloody and senseless capitalist conflict, to realise they have much more in common with their exploited brothers and sisters on ‘the other side’ than they can possibly have with their exploiters at home. We urge them to stop inflicting misery on one another at the behest of heads of state, and to pool their energies in union with one another to overthrow this defunct and deadly world capitalist system – an overthrow which, when we are once united in our millions, can be achieved with relative ease.
“So that we can at last, as a united humanity – free from the profit system with its warfare, poverty and devastation – solve together and reverse the damage which world capitalism is now causing.
“Let us no longer subject ourselves to lethal delusions such as nationalism. Let us claim the world for all of us, ending wars and frontiers forever.
“World socialism, now!”
I think it is obvious that Putin will want to annex Moldavia. Will NATO be looking to incorporate that country?
