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13 June: ‘Esperanto and the quest for a universal language’.
The SPGB used to contain some Esperanto-users. Are there still any?
‘Israeli rabbi educators at military prep-academy are caught on video congratulating Hitler’ :
What is the point of repeating the quote from the deranged and erratic Jack London? He was not only a World War One enthusiast, he also was a racist who wrote a story about eliminating the entire population of China.You have to really *read* the story — it’s online. The Wikipedia description does not convey at all how despicable it is.Forgot to give the url for it:
https://quillette.com/2018/10/06/a-new-kind-of-economy-an-interview-with-andrew-yang/
Interview with US presidential candidate, Democrat Andrew Yang, supporter of UBI (and of ‘social credits’).
First paragraph:
‘Andrew Yang is a 43-year-old American entrepreneur who is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2020. His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore. Starting right now, Yang wants to create a whole new kind of economy from the ground up, in which automation is transformed from a threat into the foundation for widespread human flourishing.’
Pro-Assange sentiment from a (free-marketeer) libertarian perspective:
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2019/04/15/julian-assange-and-the-sins-of-the-world
I can’t hear it, but here it is on youtube:Marcos:Re your #176904:I emailed both slpns@slp.org and socialist@slp.org on 18 January and heard nothing back. Weeks later I emailed again, and this time also asked for acknowledgment of reception of my email. April now. Still no reply.So, question to you: since you know of the existence of the newsletter, presumably you are a recipient. About how often does it come out? But more to the point: when did you last receive one?@ alanjjohnstone
Don’t understand. What is it you’ve never heard of? ‘Cultural Marxism’? Really?? Apparently http://www.unz.com (to give just one example) is not on your daily or even monthly reading list.The ideas about the objectives/function of the Frankfurt School etc are mostly the doing of the world’s leading and most scholarly anti-semite, Kevin MacDonald. (No, not the film director.) Here, in this interview, interested persons can familiarise themselves in concentrated form with his views. (The idiotic term ‘Cultural Marxism’ is, however, not used in the interview.)(The mentioned ‘CoC’ refers to a series of books by him, sympathetically summarised on this ‘alternative’ Wikipedia: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Jewish_group_evolutionary_strategy . )I invite comment on this article I linked to on 19 March that claims to present a ‘quick list of instances in which the Zionist lobby skewed US foreign policy at the highest level, going back to Israel’s creation’: https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/accept-criticize-israel . The picture given is of foreign policy determined not by economico-strategic considerations, but by what virtually amounts to bribery. (Cf Marx infamously on Palmerston??)Unrelated:
@ alanjjohnstone:
In a post of yours I can’t find now, you mentioned having relatives in … the Shetlands? If they are (relatively speaking) autochthonous, rather than migrants from mainland Scotland (or elsewhere), are they imbued with any measure of ‘Norse-consciousness’, as I understand some people there to be? I get that impression from, for example, this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11066878/British-isles-where-Viking-blood-still-flows.html . Are there are currently those there that in the event of Scottish independence would favor some kind of arrangement with Norway rather staying with Scotland or remaining in a rump UK?
(Only of linguistic interest: the article is wrong in saying that *Norwegian* still had speakers until 1850. What they spoke there — ‘Norn’ — is thought to be close to Faroese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norn_language .
Says Conrad in that article:
‘Put aside Marx’s own Jewishness, a religiously pious mother and rabbinical lineage: a good case can be made for his communism being connected, consciously or otherwise, with messianic Old Testament prophets, such as Amos, Micah and Habakkuk.18 Possibly this came through his personal acquaintance with the proto-Zionist Moses Hess (1812-72), who likewise condemned the “Judeo-Christian huckster world”; a line of thought that surely came via Spinoza, Goethe and Hegel. ‘
I think any anti-semite would be delighted to read that.
The fact of the matter is that Marx got his initial communism from Frenchmen, not from Hess — and certainly not from the OT. And Hess (from whom Engels indeed is said to have ‘learned his communism’) at that time was called Moritz, not Moses; he was not yet a Jewish nationalist (proto-zionist or otherwise) — that happened later on, the 60’s.
In your untiring and commendable daily perusal of alternative news sites, do not neglect (if you do) the following:(- where you yesterday would have seen this great little history —2) The US (market-)libertarian site https://www.antiwar.com .3) https://www.wsws.org (where, despite all, there is now and then something worth reading.)(Not necessarily just in connection with the zionism-topic of course.)Excellent. But a trigger-warning to the reviewer: this book contains long sex scenes as well as neo-genderal phenomena. This can be distressing to certain older readers.
