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Another Tosser then

And this requires another kind of realism – understanding what might appeal to the greatest number of people globally, from peasants in the global south to farmers in the global north. It’s unlikely, he says, that we’ll get communism or socialism in the next 10 years – a small farmer in Iowa “doesn’t want to obliterate private property”. But we can get “some pretty good stuff” through “decommodifying many of the key pillars of socioeconomic life and creatively working within ecological constraints”, even if “we’ll probably still have basic market mechanisms for some things”.

If some of this sounds like triangulation, he insists it isn’t. “In between meaningless reform and impossible revolution,” he writes, “we find mixed existing and historical models of formal state, civil, and guerrilla strategies.

Another of those idea sets clearly produced by frotting over Das Kapial in Mom’s basement.

23 thoughts on “Another Tosser then”

  1. I knew before I clicked which hack rag this would be. Now to apply the same skill to the next lottery numbers

  2. So he points out that the important thing is seizing power. Everything must be subordinated to that.

    Surprise, surprise!!

  3. Why are these arseholes always tired?

    another kind of realism

    Magic realism? Unrealism?

    decommodifying many of the key pillars of socioeconomic life and creatively working within ecological constraints … If some of this sounds like triangulation, he insists it isn’t.

    Sounds like gibberish to me.

  4. They never say what their utopia looks like. Like a politician promising change with no explanation as to what change.

    Will I have any property?
    Will I be happy?
    Will you be taking my stuff?
    And my individual rights?
    What will be the population of the earth?

  5. Marxists faced an unpleasant reality at the end of the 1980s. The Revolution simply wasn’t going to happen and if any sort of uprising did occur, it was going to produce the wrong sort of result ( eg Brexit, farmers ).

    Generally they gave up on the unreliableWorking Class and turned instead to racisl politics or environmentalism. These had been nurtured since the 1960s and were now ready to become mainstream Marxist tropes, not just the preserve of hippies or Black Panther style racists.

    So you can see now that writing on these two subjects mirrors the Post War Marxist theorising, with the same incomprehensible inpenetrable language but with “Working Class” replaced with “Black” or “repression” ir “explotation” replaced with “Climate Change” and the enemy being Big Media/Pharma/Tech/Food instead of plutocrats.

    I mentioned this the other day. With S Africa gone as an enemy, they needed a new one and conveniently Israel presented itself. It also provided a far more fertile landscape for growing their base in the ever growing Muslim populations in their various countries.

  6. Has Socialism delivered good outcomes for farmers anywhere? Russia? China? Cambodia? Argentina? South Africa? Anwhere at all?

  7. I mentioned this the other day. With S Africa gone as an enemy, they needed a new one and conveniently Israel presented itself. It also provided a far more fertile landscape for growing their base in the ever growing Muslim populations in their various countries.

    Sure, but it does make you look (quite correctly) as the slavering anti-semite that they actually are. Bugger all the narrow interlocutions about “anti-zionism isn’t anti-Semitism” when the crowd at the back are chanting “From the river to the Sea”.

    Just because we’ve imported a small minority of Muslims into this country (far more than I think healthy for our democracy), we’re still no nearer to the hyperbole of a “Muslim takeover” than we are to a Marxist one, since the vast majority of people outside the Islington bubble sees them all as just complete mentalists who should be locked up in an institution (were any still open) rather than causing inconvenience to London motorists every fortnight.

    We fought the anti-semites wearing blackshirts in the 1930’s, not because some political ideologue said we should, but because it was the right thing to do. Looks like we need to do a similar clearing out of unacceptable views in 2024.

  8. Just because we’ve imported a small minority of Muslims into this country

    It isn’t that they are a small minority, it is that they have concentrated and become ( if not the majority ) a significant group in certain areas. It is in these concentrations that seats cane be decided or that a bloc can be organised to vote a certain way and capture a council or bring pressure to bear on local police and politicians. We’ve all seen it happen

  9. We fought the anti-semites wearing blackshirts in the 1930’s, not because some political ideologue said we should, but because it was the right thing to do.
    Who’s the “we” in this? That period of history’s been thoroughly mythologised. Half the people in the East End were mildly favourable to Mosely, if not outright supporters. Anti-Semitism then wasn’t anything to be ashamed of. Most people were. The Jews then were like the Muslims now. Strange foreign people who’d moved in & taken over. They weren’t the historic Jews had been in the City for centuries. Mostly they were E.European fled the pograms. And you didn’t have to dig very far down into the international socialist communist rabble rousers to come up with Jews. At the time, the national form of socialism, if you must have socialism, looked attractive.

  10. Exhausted of the Earth author Ajay Singh Chaudhary says how we feel and the state of the earth are connected

    What’s interesting to me is how unconnected they are to the earth.

    They’re not farmers or fishermen, are they? These Eco-Commie poseurs are not grounded in any kind of stable, traditional community and contribute nothing to society other than feeble talk. They’re weak and pudgy hothouse flowers who rent flats in disgusting cities full of strangers and spend most of their time on the Internet – when they’re not taking SSRIs for their crippling unhappiness.

    They don’t believe in God, but then they don’t really have enduring beliefs about anything, although they think they do. Their opinions are blown in the winds of social media bullshit and whatever wank they just saw on the telly. Each Current Thing evangelised with the fervour of a snake handling Alabama pastor, their memories having been washed sparkling clean of the previous Current Thing that was So Important You Guys, just five minutes ago.

    They’re not usually happy, normal people with stable marriages and children. They’re the human equivalent of those those little yappy gremlin dogs footballers’ wives sometimes keep in their handbags – wouldn’t survive more than 20 minutes in the wild, but that doesn’t stop them barking.

    I recommend lifting weights and drinking more water.

  11. @Ottokring 11:27 : This. 100%.

    And even though they’re a small (not so small in some places) minority, when they threaten to slit throats or chop off heads, you’d better pay attention because they’re perfectly willing to do those things.

    Thus they exert an influence out of all proportion to their numbers, especially on the Labour Party. It’s probably too late to fix this, and it’s not going to improve, it’s only going to get worse.

  12. I recommend lifting weights and drinking more water.

    And paying a sturdy lass to fuck their brains out. That’s probably the problem, they’re not getting any nooky.

  13. Funny thing is, Steve, that’s just what I was thinking about Mosely. His mistake was thinking the militarism schtik would work for him the same way it worked for Uncle Dolfo. But English upper class. What could you expect? Brits in the 30s were nothing like Germans. Brits never had much respect for their military. To them it was like a rather loopy uncle one met & felt obliged to be polite to at weddings & funerals but wouldn’t invite round to tea. It’s officer corps a bunch of baffoons & the ranks made up of those couldn’t hack a proper job. Mosely’s Blackshirts were more comical than anything else. Brits didn’t see a military as stability in an ocean of chaos. Quite the opposite. It was who dragged them off in uniform to fight a foreign war. They’d “done their bit”. They weren’t about to do it again. If he’d just stuck to the politics, maybe he’d have done better.
    There’s a multi-volume publication I used to have. I think it was called ‘War Illustrated’. It comprised bound copies of a wartime magazine was published ’39 through to ’46. It’s pretty well all propaganda. What’s interesting is; if this what they were trying to convince people of, what were their opinions before? Like in the period after Barbarossa when the Russians magically change from the Bolshevik hordes into our staunch eastern allies in a matter of a couple of issues. I suspect a historian looking at the current British press might be asking the same question.

  14. Dennis, Pointing Out The Obvious

    Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on social and political theory, Frankfurt School critical theory, political economy, political ecology, media, religion, and post-colonial studies.

    Advanced degrees from Columbia and the LSE in pseudo-intellectual garage pulled from the “social sciences”.

    You just knew he had to be full of shit.

  15. BiS – Brits didn’t see a military as stability in an ocean of chaos. Quite the opposite. It was who dragged them off in uniform to fight a foreign war.

    Yarp. There are two authors who I feel described England better than any other: Kazuo Ishiguro, and JRR Tolkien.

    The Jap understands us, perhaps better than we understand ourselves. He has an English soul. Tolkien’s bucolic fantasy of the Shire is an idealised form of traditional rural England as seen through crown glass, and a pleasant haze of pipeweed.

    Stevens, the painfully English butler in The Remains of the Day, dutifully served his aristocratic master despite and not because of the posh bloke’s unwise flirtation with funny foreign chappies in uniform. Which, like everything else modern, ill suited the English. Our traditional conservatism and dislike of exciting new ideas or foreigners served us better.

    Asiaseen – And paying a sturdy lass to fuck their brains out. That’s probably the problem, they’re not getting any nooky.

    Can confirm.

    Sam Gamgee – an archetype of the ideal English peasant – was rewarded for his heroism by winning the hand of Rosie Cotton.

    Tolkien felt it important to let you understand that they shagged frequently and had 13 children together, because that’s what Happily Ever After entails.

  16. Whenever I read pseudo shite like that I wonder if any of the rags readers actually understand it.
    Gunning Fogg index puts it at needing 18 years of education. So its written to sound clever not illuminate.

  17. Don’t waste your breath talking to these arseholes – they are beyond redemption. It’s not their privileges which will be reduced, but yours.
    The best thing to do is to put them out of their misery/delusions with a quick blow.

    Once the Markist infection has taken hold, there’s no possibility of reform – it’s kindness to remove them from the world.

  18. I wonder if any of the rags readers actually understand it.

    They should be forgiven if they do not understand it. It is mostly gibberish.

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