Thomas_More
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So what is your explanation, comrades, for Trump changing position vis à vis Russia time and time again, like a shuttlecock batted between Putin one day and Graham, Starmer & Co. the next?
Well, Trump can stay in power (and alive) by NOT pressing the button. If he presses it, he will be neither. I think he knows that. He doesn’t want to play golf underground.
My geography teacher in school was in his nineties at least. He had been a drummer boy in the Boer War, told us the Chinese had pigtails so we could grab them when they tried to run away, and still thought Germany was ruled by a Kaiser – yet he, bless him, had more sense than the military buffoons today recommending air raid sirens, gas masks, bunkers and public regimentation to “be prepared” for a nuclear attack!
These overgrown kids (although anything but harmless) are still living in the 1940s and haven’t the slightest idea of a nuclear reality.
My “obsession” is fear, and I would say anyone not feeling it, and who is unperturbed by current events, is someone without normal reflexes or sensibility.
Naturally I seek consolation from those in the party who are better informed and are convinced it is all just fearmongering. My only fault is subjecting myself to current reports on the news, and party comrades have helped me by explaining that WW3 is very unlikely.
I am not obsessed with “Armageddon”, and if appendicitis suddenly hit me, nuclear war would immediately disappear from my mind at that moment, as would Marxist dialectics or the French Revolution.
Nothing to do with any “death wish”, but more to do with venting their lifeling frustration, misery and hatred on “the foreigner.”
Militarists’ frenzy over summit.
We humans are only on the verge of truly relating to those sharing this planet with us. Are we to let capitalism destroy that possibility too?
Or else, socialists must admit our confidence in the working class was misplaced, and also our faith in homo sapiens, and that our species is a miserable failure, in spite of our abilities, art, literature and science, a mere blip in the evolution of life on Earth, doomed to a very, very early extinction because of our own actions.
But leaving aside Christanoloons and imbecilic millenarians and such, the working class who inhabit cities and towns are going to be sweltering and suffocating, drowning and burning and losing everything.
I don’t think they’ll ever be calling themselves socialists, or thinking about Marx, but they’ll just do it: take the means of production out of the hands of the capitalists. They’ll do it because they’ll know they have to. Unfortunately not yet, and not until the very moment it’s survival or extinction.
