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I know this. What we are discussing is how to overcome the timidity and the things standing in our way.
Saying nation-states will disappear is more likely to arouse immediate ire against us than saying money will disappear.
(By the way, has any member been to a function (football, concert) and actually remained seated during the national anthem? I’d be interested to know the reaction you received).
But Lizzie is right.
The populists, right wingers etc. are not suggesting a different system of society.
People just can’t envisage taking control by themselves. Their whole upbringing is to rely on authoritarian figures. Even when they go on strike, they are petitioning the bosses. Even the angriest follow a group and leaders, and petition those in power to “do the right thing” – and seldom does that even succeed.
I don’t think mainstream religion is an issue. But nationalism certainly is. National flags are the modern idols of the mass of workers. Even protesters wave national flags when protesting racism, war, etc.
Being put in “jobclubs” etc. several times for us unemployed “scroungers”, I found my fellow jobless, much worse off than me, very very Tory.
And every homeless man i’ve met has boasted of his military exploits and told me we need the draft back.Getting on for 150 years since the party’s founding, and membership has remained the same or less, mostly kept to the offspring of members.
And today, thousands more flat earthers than there are socialists!I also seem to remember a trades union rep rejecting Corbyn’s anti-militarism by saying the British workers’ priority has to be defence of the realm!
Well I don’t see it (socialism) happening, although I still think it our duty to promote it for as long as we live.
It isn’t that everyone doesn’t have the rational tool for it, but I don’t see it being used, because reason isn’t master, and I think the party is naive in its, well, 18th century-like view of the primacy of reason.Why are the poorest and most deprived also the most adulatory and reactionary?
Doesn’t the UK get most of its gas from the North Sea instead of Russia? The French workers are not facing the extortionate costs we are. So obviously, the British state wants us to hate “the Russians” rather than our masters here.
Just watched a report on worldwide civil unrest set to expand in 2023 over cost of living and energy.
With the world’s capitalists on the brink of world war, might they not trigger it to offset any chance of the workers getting together against them (the capitalists)?
Why would the Russian army be shelling the Zaporozhye plant if they control it? They would be shelling their own troops.
Kublai Khan was more generous, by a thousandfold, to his subjects on hard times than any capitalist state is today!
(See Marco Polo).Alaska’s endangered beluga whale is about to get a new neighbor. Not a new salmon or seabird friend, but a big, terrifying, metal contraption that brings noise, pollution, and the threat of catastrophic oil spills. This is an oil drilling rig — and all it would take is one accident to ruin the gentle beluga’s habitat.
The Department of Interior is poised to greenlight new drilling leases, including in Cook Inlet — the endangered beluga’s home. But the DOI has not provided impacted communities enough time to voice their opinion.
Cook Inlet’s watershed is home to 400,000 people — nearly two-thirds of Alaska’s population. And Alaskan natives depend on clean waters and a healthy environment for their subsistence lifestyle. An oil spill would be devastating to local communities. Even barring such a catastrophe, air and water pollution from fossil fuel drilling endangers everyone, especially children and seniors.
