tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8574206343037929803..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Bordering on CowardicePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33029325534460686772021-02-02T17:26:54.104+00:002021-02-02T17:26:54.104+00:00It is quite ironic that Boffy mentions BNP and UKI...It is quite ironic that Boffy mentions BNP and UKIP given his entire discourse on Covid, the primary issue of the day if not the century, pretty much is in entire agreement with those groups and their members.<br /><br />I am surprised Boffy has not joined Laurence Fox.<br /><br />And the reason Boffy puts forward his covid idiocy and genocidal policies is for the same reasons UKIP and the BNP do. I.e. they are neo liberal Thatcherites.<br /><br />Nationalism doesn't come into it, Farage wants to pay lower taxes and not be hampered with consumer and environmental protection. He wants trade relationships with less fussy partners than the EU and all its red tape. He only spouts about the Union Jack to get the idiots on his side, but basically he has the same free trade outlook as Boffy.<br /><br />Boffy is about as far from communism as it is possible to get.<br /><br />And what is communism?<br /><br />The market is now irrational and is wholly inadequate for dealing with the problems of today and tomorrow.<br /><br />The only option is a planned economy and the end of exchange, i.e. communism. The end of exchange, communism, is now rational and will have the added benefit of rescuing a large section of the population from the idiocy of consumerist life.BCFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-54525549800737357812021-02-02T12:47:01.355+00:002021-02-02T12:47:01.355+00:00The opportunist politics of Labour as an electoral...The opportunist politics of Labour as an electoralist party, and particularly of Starmer, means that it is inevitably driven in the direction of chauvinism and nationalism. Its the same process that led the parties of the Second International to line up behind their respective ruling classes in WWI, when rampant nationalism amongst the masses drove them in that direction to try to win votes, and not lose support.<br /><br />Labour is inevitably being driven into becoming UKIP Mark II, or even a pale version of the BNP. But, those who think the answer is leaving Labour are deluded. In 1914, millions of socialists split from the Second International to form the Third International. There is no such prospect today. Indeed, with hindsight, the creation of the Third International was a mistake too. Many workers didn't understand it, which led the Comintern to have to come up with the United Front strategy to work with the reformists, anyway. It saw the Trotskyists have to make the French Turn, and "enter" the socialist parties, whilst it allowed the Stalinists to take over the Comintern, with all of the dire consequences that has had for the labour movement in the last century.<br /><br />We have to simply continue patient work inside the LP once again, and work to replacing Starmer before the Right do. We have to learn the lessons of the Corbyn debacle, both in terms of strategy, and in terms of rejecting reactionary economic nationalism.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-58292315034321988172021-02-02T10:35:10.543+00:002021-02-02T10:35:10.543+00:00Without getting too Whovian about it, I've tho...Without getting too Whovian about it, I've thought for a while that there are pivotal moments in politics, key incidents that both show us what's at stake and put down a marker that nobody can go back from. Untimely death is often involved - Grenfell, Jo Cox, Menezes - but not always. As far as Labour's current trajectory is concerned, I think the sacking of RLB is that kind of moment: this is what we're opposed to, this is what we're prepared to discard, these are the smears and scare stories we're willing to endorse. And, nine months later, here we are.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-63827516204393941062021-02-02T09:04:41.164+00:002021-02-02T09:04:41.164+00:00I know. The only problem is fixing the Facebook im...I know. The only problem is fixing the Facebook image means making its display here look derpy.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-63387002859058697692021-02-02T08:33:29.956+00:002021-02-02T08:33:29.956+00:00Phil: Very grabby image at the top and brings in t...Phil: Very grabby image at the top and brings in the punters. But needs a bit of tweaking: its displays poorly on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alan.story.50 <br />Alan Storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07335333178667789651noreply@blogger.com