Conversation Between Lev Bronsteinovich and Anglo-Saxon Philistine

  1. Great. I am glad to hear it, comrade.
  2. I realise that, but try telling that to our administrators... anyway, I've received an e-mail from the German Spartacists; it seems I will have to send an actual letter to the German section (I had tried to avoid that since the mail isn't reliable here), but at least things are moving in a possibly productive direction.
  3. The age of consent laws should be a no-brainer for any Marxist, but people are so imbued with the petite bourgeois morality they live in that they just can accept it. Obviously, the SL does not favor the molestation of children. This is a call to stop the bourgeois state from criminalizing sexuality of which it disapproves.
  4. Specifically, The YAB was what a group of supporters and comrades dubbed themselves on a bus on the way down to Washington D.c. for a demonstration. I think it was actually about the civil war in El Salvador, but it was a long time ago and I might be mistaken. The SLUS did offer to help raise a brigade of militants to fight against the mullahs to the Afghan government. This offer was declined. On the whole, I would say that the SL US' impulse to strongly defend the USSR, at a time of cold war hysteria in the US was to err on the side of not giving in to overwhelming public opinion and not a bad thing. The offer to the Afghan government was grandiose, but not politically incorrect.

    As for the issues with them getting back to you, could you put in a telephone call? They have a public office in New York City, you might try calling there. I have very sporadic content with the group over the past 15 years (coinciding with my getting married and raising a family).
  5. Good grief, the animus some people on this site display toward the ICL (and probably the IBT, IG, IR) is nothing short of legendary. Looking at people's posts, one would be excused for thinking that their stance on the age of consent laws is literally the only thing the Spartacists have ever published.

    Well, that and their stance on North Korea.

    So, concerning the ICL, I have contacted them (via email since my current PO box is an unsecure leaky... well, box, in the middle of nowhere) over a week ago, and have still received no response. This is normal, of course, I don't expect them to have someone online 24/7 to answer emails, but I was wondering, do you know how much it takes for them to respond on average?
  6. Despair and religion go together like peanut butter and jelly.
  7. It refers to the tabletop miniatures wargame "Warhammer 40 000" and the human factions' xenophobic faith in their emperor. The point being, of course, that fideism can justify just about anything.

    Spirituality is one of those things I simply don't "get"; it seems to be a way for people to have their cake, er, deity, and only follow those religious rules they want to. I don't think it's terribly consistent, and it's usually expressed in such vague terms it might not mean anything at all.

    But what fascinates me is the popularity of religion among the left - and not just the sort of religiosity "by default" that is the scourge of our times, but of enthusiastic, vocal religion being presented as completely leftists, and at least on the same footing as science (!). Then again, similar things happened in the revolutionary downswing after the 1905 revolution - empirio-criticism, bogostroitelstvo, and so on, and so on.
  8. I think the prevalence of religious sentiment in the world is, more than anything else a testimony to the decadence of late period capitalism. About 30 (egad) years ago I wrote a song called "That's why I hate religion." Among the best lyrics I ever penned. It equated religion with superstition. Of course, a lot of "spiritual" types will say they oppose religion, but believe in god -- their own personal religion.

    I became an atheist at age 15, sitting in synagogue thinking about meaning of the prayers. What kind of omnipotent being would require his creations to sit and ritually praise him? It struck me as absurd. BTW, what is the "Light of the Astronomican?
  9. Defensores, not defensored. I really should not post while under the influence.
  10. Indeed, comrade, you have to experience the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, Jesus, some vague eclectic "revelation" or, I guess, the Light of the Astronomican in order to believe. But in the meantime, you should by all means treat religious statements as if they were true or at least probable. And when their inanity is pointed out, attack science with some pomo nonsense or though-guy ultra-"materialism".

    The defensored fidei have still not responded to the thread... how is it that we get so many people like that? I can (sort of) understand that many members are religious, but I would have thought no one would actually defend religion on this site.
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