Thomas_More
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The DPP recently failed to oust the Kuomintang from the legislature.
Fellow old-timers, did you ever think you’d here the KMT described as pro-Peking?The Kuomintang couldn’t, not for long.
So these Trots can join numerous parties simultaneously? Trotsky wouldn’t even have allowed that, I don’t think.
“China are now building a modern socialist nation”.
If you believe that you’ll believe anything.
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Yes. The trouble is that most people just take that as so.
Most people are not in-depth thinkers, are not interested anyway, and go by common usage, names and labels.They don’t know what socialism is, don’t care; so why wouldn’t they believe it? And that goes for most Chinese too.
It seems people, including those who know of the SPGB, and who have read something of Marx and others, will go out of their way, and go out of their way, and yet again go out of their way, to avoid our case, no matter how devastating things get under capitalism. They’ll come up with ever more reformist parties and ever more reformist dead-end, repeated projects to hide and avoid the urgency of real socialism. And this is true on the street too, and not just among “the Left.”
So, is it correct to say not all members of the working class produce surplus value, but are still wage-slaves, in that they are members of the class which is compelled to work in order to live?
(Whereas an individual capitalist might work for fun, but doesn’t need to in order to live).Entertainers and writers can be said to produce surplus value, because a television production, or major theatre production, or film, are products which are sold. Hence, screenwriters, comedians, actors etc., are salary workers paid for their labour but not reaping the value going to the tv company, film company etc. Exceptions would be drama co-operatives I suppose.
Why are Merz & Co. doing their utmost to invite a devastating Russian military attack down on Europe?
Here we are then:
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/us-nukes-deployed-to-england-for-first-time-in-over-a-decade/
Safe, it’s not Russian!
