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Covid

Lest we forget …

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“Do you honestly think I give a *** *** [about playing the government’s willing mule to the electricity company]?”

1. Yes, otherwise you wouldn’t have lost your temper.
2. Yes, otherwise you wouldn’t have kicked back “I have 66 quid to spend on something else”.

The only question under capitalist conditions is “does anyone — yourself included — honestly think you’ll deliberately renege on the 66 quid (or whatever) you owe the electricity company?”

Capitalism has many ways of making willing and unwilling mules pay up.

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Just received a further 66 quid [from the government] towards my monthly electricity bill.

No you didn’t. The electricity company did. You were the government’s mule.

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alanjjohnstone wrote:

I have forwarded your post to the internet committee

Actually, There is a quote link. I’m trying it out now.

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Thanks. I trust that a simple solution can be found.

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Bundeslied

The Bundeslied, or “Federal Song”, was commissioned by Ferdinand Lassalle for the fledgling Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1863. It is thus historically significant.

Georg Herwegh wrote the words and Hans von Bülow composed four-part music for it. Hanns Eisler substituted Brechtian music for it in the 1920s.

Incidentally, Hans von Bülow was acquainted with Max Stirner (“Saint Max”). Bülow was Franz Liszt’s son-in-law (until opera composer Richard Wagner ‘stole’ his wife). Richard Wagner bonded closely with Mikhail Bakunin in the 1849 Dresden revolt. Georg Herwegh tainted Richard Wagner’s later works with Schopenhauerianism. Hanns Eisler was deported from the USA in 1948 for un-American activities.

“Bet und Arbeit” reminds us that capitalist time is money, and our bread. Our concerned capitalist lets us pray to our heavenly father after hours.

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Marx and Engels

Engels called the 1720s satire The Vicar of Bray “the only political folk song remaining popular in England for more than a hundred and sixty years.
https://wikirouge.net/texts/en/The_Vicar_of_Bray_(Engels,_1882)

The Vicar of Bray. Arranged P. M. Adamson — selected for diction.

The Vicar of Bray. John Potter and the Broadside Band — selected for 18th century period.

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* See Mark Lindsey’s Marx and Engels on Music https://mronline.org/2010/08/18/marx-and-engels-on-music/

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Joe Hill

Paul Robeson sings “Joe Hill” to Sydney Opera House construction workers in 1960 Alfred Hayes (1925). Music: Earl Robinson (1936)

(2) The Preacher and the Slave Joe Hill (1911) — Utah Phillips

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French Connection

The Marriage of Figaro Mozart (1786). For Napoleon, the subversive play by Beaumarchais (1778) on which Mozart based his opera, triggered the French Revolution of 1789.

https://youtu.be/z7XWxnacs0Y

The Marseillaise theme can be heard in Mozart’s piano concerto 25 of the same year as his opera (1786).

(2) La Marseillaise Rouget de Lisle (1792) — arranged by Hector Berlioz (1830).

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We will all go together when we go Tom Lehrer (1967)

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And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Eric Bogle (1971).

(1) Liam Clancey — words in the description

(2) Eric Bogle — in 2009.

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Bump me into Parliament Bill Casey (1915). A satire on Labour politicians.

Casey belonged to the Socialist Party of Australia — a companion party of World Socialism. These words are closer to the original (1915) that were distributed and sung on the Domain in Sydney: http://folkstream.com/019.html

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A perfect exhibition of the vacuity of philosophy under the capitalist mode of production!

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As the screw turns…

With office occupancy plumbing to all time depths as city staff are working from home, there are slimmer pickings for single-taxers of high-rise commercial office space!

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Q: “Aren’t all apes African (an artificial concept, however useful for some purposes)?”

A: “Africa” and “Eurasia” are nothing more than regions on either side of an isolation barrier to interbreeding.

The textbook example is the evolution of Darwin’s finches (and tortoises) on the distinct islands of the Galápagos archipelago.

Q: “Why are we not the sub-species to Neanderthals?”

A: This boils down to:

• Q: How did later (70,000 years ago) African Homo sapiens out-compete earlier Eurasians?
• A: This is active research.

• Q: What is the evolutionary impact of 65,000 years of isolation on Australian Homo sapiens?
• A: None. Australians had cohabited with Neanderthals and Denisovans in Eurasia. They are [just another] Eurasian variant.

• Cultural evolution is more significant than biological evolution for Homo sapiens from the Upper Palaeolithic onwards.

Modern Homo sapiens comprises one gloriously mongrel species.

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