So when the Christians in the USA say 'well we won't allow a mosque in ... I don't know ... Kentucky because they won't allow a church in Indonesia', it'll be a nice 'fuck you' to the Muslims?
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So when the Christians in the USA say 'well we...So when the Christians in the USA say 'well we won't allow a mosque in ... I don't know ... Kentucky because they won't allow a church in Indonesia', it'll be a nice 'fuck you' to the Muslims?
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One of the mistakes you're making is in looking...One of the mistakes you're making is in looking at them in isolation. Nordic social democracy cannot be sustained without the super-exploitation of others abroad, just as in more neoliberal...
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That's not true, revisionist social democracy has...That's not true, revisionist social democracy has failed. The idea that you can unleash market forces and use the state to address the problems has been found unworkable- have you not been paying...
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If you watch the Vice Guide, you can see that for...If you watch the Vice Guide, you can see that for the vast majority of the time they were only allowed to film what the authorities wanted them to film. And apparently what they wanted them to film...
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Sites like pixum.co.uk can make posters and...Sites like pixum.co.uk can make posters and things with whatever print you want on it- and on eBay there are always CD-Roms full of Soviet propaganda going for like £1. So you could get a CD full of...
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The papers of Jimmy Deane in the Modern Records...The papers of Jimmy Deane in the Modern Records Centre in Warwick have a ton of Ted Grant stuff.
Can't post links yet, from searching it looks like at least the second two of those articles...
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So who would own the machines that run the...So who would own the machines that run the economy? The capitalists. The ordinary people who in other systems would be the proletariat would get no say in how that society is run, what is produced,...
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As posters have said, some of them were kind-of...As posters have said, some of them were kind-of socialists who happened to be horrible racists as well. Rohm, the Strassers, and Goebbels are this kind (Goebbels quote: 'first socialism revolution,...
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I would possibly join either the Socialist Party...I would possibly join either the Socialist Party (I imagine I would have been Militant back in the day), SWP or the Communist Party of Britain, but the way I see it is this: we're aiming to infuse...
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NEED ADVICE- Aid to developing world trade unionsComrades! I'm part of a pretty left-wing Labour Party university society (not out of any reformist or 'capitalist-workers-party tendencies on my part don't you worry) and here's an idea I'm trying to...
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If I was born a year earlier it would be very...If I was born a year earlier it would be very unfortunate indeed!
Unless '89' stands for something Nazi-related too? In which case, oh bugger.
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By the strength of their organisations and...By the strength of their organisations and political clout they can force higher wages within the capitalist system, which are gained not at the expense of the capitalist class but through the more...
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And what do you mean by that?
The original...And what do you mean by that?
The original poster is a textbook example of what Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky, etc, called the aristocracy of labour, that subset of the proletariat commented on by Marx...
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'Aristocracy of labour'- a proletarian bribed...'Aristocracy of labour'- a proletarian bribed with wealth through the super-exploitation of other proletarians, especially those of the developing world. Like most of us in the developed world.
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1. The focus on combating redundant reactionary...1. The focus on combating redundant reactionary ideologies. We don't need to spend so much time arguing against 'anarcho-capitalism' or followers of Ayn Rand- they are irrelevant and doomed to...
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'Anarcho-capitalism' is certainly oxymoronic. The...'Anarcho-capitalism' is certainly oxymoronic. The distinction between state power and economic power is a completely arbitrary split, the two in essence are one and the same.
The...
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Thanks for the replies guys :D I think the reason...Thanks for the replies guys :D I think the reason I'm in the Labour Party is because the situation in the UK is very much the same as Comrade Oscar finds it in America- there isn't that one leftist...
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Hello Leftists!Hi, I'm Mike, 21 (but I won't be for long, as comrade Bragg sang) from Wigan in the UK, studying at a university in Wales. At university the political scene is quite weak, a few Marxists and...