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DJP –
Yes, I have read it twice. Once directly before posting the url, and then a second time after a seven day holiday from internet.
With many caveats, I think it is well worth reading, yes; and fully agree with ALB’s: ”This is the sort of discussion — and the sort of people we should be discussing with’ […]’.
My caveats: there much in it that is unnecessary, tedious, pretentiously literary, and even downright foolish (the humor). But these exasperating formal impediments to content-targeted reading are not homogeneous across the article: there are entire paragraphs, even whole sections (say, that between ‘Localities’ to ‘Motor of History’ ) that are unmarred.
As for flavor-of-the-month marxologist Søren Mau, whom you mention: on the basis of what is written about him in this article, I would conclude that he is an idiot, and it is difficult to imagine what useful ‘breakthroughs’ he has arrived at in his the-newest-interpretation of Marx. Still, I might download his book and take a look.
You say the Standard ought to review Mau’s book. If only the SPGB had the same policy that the WSPUS had, non-party members would not be barred from contributing to the party organ, and you could write the review yourself.
But never mind about hot-new-thing Søren Mau for the moment. First and foremost, what the Socialist Standard ought to review is this article itself. (If for no other reason than because this is the way to bring it to the attention of those party members who do not deign to read this forum … or this thread of this forum or whatever.)
PS: Nick Chavez himself has reviewed Mau’s book, positively: https://shorturl.at/tEINW . But from his description I can hardly agree with his concluding sentence, that ‘Every communist should have a copy of this book’.
At #249337 YMS wrote:
‘My own collection of atonal drone music might not make the cut of most people’s definition of music.’
Do you mean such as the following two links, YMS? What are some items in your collection?
Titled ‘Forest and Factory: the Science and the Fiction of Communism’, here is a new contribution — having appeared just days ago — on the topic of production under socialism. Section headings are these:
Tangibilities
The Fundamental Principles of Communism
Localities
Association and Deliberation
The Ecosystem of Industry
Planned and Planetary Limits
The Motor of History
Construction and Conclusion(Some readers *might* want to start not from the beginning but from section ‘Planned and Planetary Limits’.)
Forest and Factory: the Science and the Fiction of Communism
Well?
(Robbo in particular should comment on it, since this area is his specialty.)
StuartW2020:
Since you are so unexpectedly gracing this forum with your presence, perhaps you would reply to point (2)
here:https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/two-ex-socialists-go-funny/page/3/#post-204299
14 anti-war songs on the ‘Folk it!’ sub-channel of Concertzender (nl), running to just under one hour, most of which are not in English:
Yes, the relative pronoun ‘which’ seems to refer to Downing’s desires, not to the Labour Party.
How had you written it before it was ‘sub-edited’?
In addition to the 6 links in the two posts above, here now is a seventh.
Some use of the internet including deepl reveals that it is from an conspiratorialist anti-migrant speech by Viktor Orbán on 15 March 2016 saying, to start with, ‘In Europe today it is forbidden to speak the truth’.
(How was this arrived at? Beginning from looking up ’tilos kimondani’, the Hungarian for ‘it is forbidden to say/speak’.)
Music for non-sung speech by the group Tin Men and the Telephone.
I find this a genius marriage of (excellent) music and text.
ALB will have to tell us what Marine Le Pen is saying.
The last two (next post) are from Trump talking.
First three:
And here is the preface (in English) to the German translation:
First german translation of an important work on the period of transition
Regarding the booklet by L.L Men, ‘Two Texts for Defining the Communist Programme’ ( here https://libcom.org/article/ll-men-two-texts-defining-communist-programme ),
it, or rather the ‘What is Socialism? part of it, has recently (!) been published in German by Red & Black Books.
See council-communist Fredo Corvo’s ‘Critical Notes on L.L.Men, “What is Socialism?” ‘:
(If you read Spanish, also click ‘Spanish with a critique by Aníbal’.)
That SLP review mentioned by Almamater of the Jennings book is on (newspaper) page 2 here, just under ‘at large’:
‘First Tel Aviv anti-war demonstration reveals the limits on protest in today’s Israel’:
First Tel Aviv anti-war demonstration reveals the limits on protest in today’s Israel
Much much more interesting, an interview with Milei in the Economist (no firewall):https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/yqYUdj
Here is what they say about Milei at the Mises Institute:
And, by the way, here is Michael Rectenwald, who is seeking the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party in the US:https://rectenwald2024.com
He’s an ex-left-communist ex-comrade of Loren Goldner’s.
