Young Master Smeet
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Just to expose my ideology, I'm coming at this as a post-neopraxian endo-phenomenological HussiteTo be fair to Lenin: in his 'What is to be done' he did propose a society of shared work, democratic production, with every cook an accountant, etc. And in his later essays, such as "Better Fewer but Better" he suggested that the role of his government was to raise the culture of the workers: so I don't think he envisaged technical dictatorship forever, any more than Marx did.Thus
Quote:This clearly means all members of society will have the same possibilities in education open to them, and they will control the education process itself, by democratic means. A socialist eduction will require that all those educated can explain clearly to everyone else what they propose to produce. There will be no 'priests' employing 'Latin' to 'read their own hidden bible', who then pretend to 'translate' their own elite understanding of their bible into words the illiterate peasants can comprehend.is uncontrvoersial, and as a post-neopraxian endo-phenomenological Hussite I can endorse this, however, technical vocabulary is still needed: chemical compounds need names, even if given just a number, someone would still have to understand that H2SO4 encapsulates a certain set of properties. I wouldn't expect every last member of the world society to memorise a complete list of chemical compounds, but I would expect that thee would be an understanding that these terms can be looked up, that any scholarly communication should be open to challenge and be mutually intelligible to anyone who had spent the time studying the subject.Back to Lenin, he believed the world could be reshaped by human will, Marx believed that lived human experience would shape the world. Post-neopraxian-endo-phenomenological Hussitism concurs on this point.
I believe the IWGB were behind the Uber court case, and I know they have organised outsourced Universiy of London cleaners.
Just to point out: most scientists these days are proletarians…just saying, like. The working class runs society from top to bottom, but not in its own interest. The technical experts these days, the intellectuals, are workers.
Relevent to the debate:http://socialisteconomicbulletin.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/who-are-left-behind.html
Quote:The Table shows that the unemployment rate for people aged 16 to 24 is 14.4%, which compares to an unemployment rate of 3.3% for all those aged over 50 years. But in every age category Asian people are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed and in every age category black people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed. Put another way, if you are young and black you are more than nine times as likely to be unemployed as if you are old and white.So, Brexit, and Trump is not so much the immiserated workers, but the ones holding on, who currently have a stake.
Quote:On pay, it is also the case that workers who are not white are paid less than their white counterparts and colleagues, and that this pay discrimination increases with qualifications.Lets not forget, pay has not returned to parity with 2008, so even those in work are feeling the pinch, and can see the precariat below them…
Well, the relationships involved here are somewhat superficial, and w don't have the capacity for intensive therapy. I'd agree more frank communication is needed: I think we need more whim from the mods, and less retreat into convoluted rules and regulations. But, I think also avoiding the relationship and the source of conflict may aleviate some of the more immediate problems.
Wikipedia wrote:Each triangle has a payoff for those playing it. The antithesis of a drama triangle lies in discovering how to deprive the actors of their payoff.Tim Kilgallon wrote:I'm not sure how familiar cdes Marraty and the comrades who take the role of Mods are with Eric Berne's theory of psychological games. However they may find Stephen Karpman's development of this theory and in particular his concept of the "drama triangle" particularly enlightening.I've been reading up about this, and it's highly suggestive and useful. One thing I'd say is that we need to find a way to cut down on drama. Rules 14 and 15 provide one such route, asking would be "rescuers" to keep their nebs out. Generally accepting the omerta on moderation decisions may help any "victim" in the triangle to re-oriientate themselves as creators, focusing on creating socialist content, and seeing their challenge as to to not bring down the sanction of the moderator.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangleI think we all need to work together to get away from drama, nad back to socialism.
Quote:Individual departments have been busily developing their projects to implement Brexit, resulting in well over 500 projects, which are beyond the capacity and capability of government to execute quickly," it says. One ministry has said that it needs a 40 per cent increase in staff to cope with its Brexit workload. "Every department has developed a 'bottom-up' plan of what the impact of Brexit could be – and its plan to cope with the 'worst case'. Although necessary, this falls considerably short of having a 'government plan for Brexit' because it has no prioritisation and no link to the overall negotiation strategy," the memo, seen by The Times, says.Interestingly, the by-line is by the Times' defence correspondent: why? How? It's a post that will certainy have to deal with the intelligence services…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37983948"No plan for Brexit" what we all knew seems to be confirmed. As Paul Mason says "Key sentence of Times leak of Govt Brexit fiasco document. Even top civil servants cannot agree on what to ask for"
Hitler was also copying American electoral rallies (including borrowing the Roman salute). American extreme rightism has never gone as far as abolishing democracy, probably because it has never had to.
This article stands up well:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1930s/1933/no-344-april-1933/rise-hitler-warning-workers
Quote:The great lesson to be learned from the decline of the Social Democrats is the sterility of the policy of reforms and of reform parties. The day on which a reform party reaches power is the day on which the evil effects of capitalism begin to sap and undermine the strength of the party, turning the members' blind loyalty first into bewilderment and then into dissatisfaction, causing them to drift into new parties.The depths of mental bankruptcy of the reformists are shown by the comment of the Fabian New Statesman (London, March 11th, 1933). After explaining that Hitler scored because he appealed, with banners and uniforms and parades, to the electorate's love of glamour, the German correspondent of the New Statesman says that the Social Democrats should have done the same, and should have given more prominence to pageantry and less prominence to social reforms. In other words, the workers are to be enticed, not even by the old plan of "bread and circuses", but by circuses without the bread! This is what forty years of Fabian reformism has brought to the working-class movement!that's where we're at now.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Pres/Maps/Nov11.html#item-1It seems the big shift is the fall in voters: it seems the Dems lost because their vote fell. Also, the polls were callign it right, alatest results are putting Clinton ahead on teh total vote, so it was the electoral college that knacked her.
The electoral college was anti-democratic by design. Yes, 128.8 million Americans cast a ballot in 2016, out of 231 million eligible voters—a turnout rate of 55.6 percent. (Wikipedia): but a working class that doesn't vote, that doesn't exist as part of the electoral process is barely a class in itself, never mind a class for itself.People talk about voter supression,a nd there must have been a lot of that, also, there are forms of gerrymandering simply by being perceived to be ahead (I imagine in, say, Tennessee, some dems might not have bothered voting, likewise republicans in California).The section of the working class, skilled manual and skilled clerical, the "middle class" as defined by American folklore, seem to have veered to Trump, while some of the porest workers seem to have gone to him as well.
http://press.labour.org.uk/post/152943436809/statement-from-jeremy-corbyn-mp-leader-of-the
Corbyn wrote:“Trump’s election is an unmistakable rejection of a political establishment and an economic system that simply isn’t working for most people. It is one that has delivered escalating inequality and stagnating or falling living standards for the majority, both in the US and Britain.“This is a rejection of a failed economic consensus and a governing elite that has been seen not to have listened. And the public anger that has propelled Donald Trump to office has been reflected in political upheavals across the world.“But some of Trump’s answers to the big questions facing America, and the divisive rhetoric around them, are clearly wrong.[/corbyn]I'm not sure of this, much has been made of the middle to above average salaries of the apparent Trump supporters, nd, much like Brexiteers, seem to live in areas with low immmigration: it seems to be more of a fear of losing (wealth and status) rather than a call to arms for a different approach.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.htmlSo, according to this exit poll, the poorest in society backed Clinton, what it looks like, though, is skilled workers ($30K+) went with trump. Also, notetrump is up 16% among the lowest group: some leftists are trying to spin against the 'Trump captured the poor' theme, but that's a huge grab of votes.Vaoufakis comments hre:https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2016/11/09/trumps-triumph-diem25-on-how-progressives-must-react/He's right, there is a reactionary inernational being organised.
