Shaggy0291 8mo ago • 100%
Feel like shit, just want it back
Shaggy0291 9mo ago • 100%
I've met a lot of people by getting active in my party. The more I take on, the more I meet.
Shaggy0291 9mo ago • 100%
A bloodbath on the same scale as the Russian red Sunday would dramatically radicalise the public, especially if it took place in London. It would instantly become Britain's 1905 moment.
Shaggy0291 9mo ago • 100%
This was my thought too. 70,000 personnel ain't shit when you consider London alone is a city of 9 million people. If just 1 out of 9 people got on the streets in London then the entire armed forces would be outnumbered by a factor of more than 10:1.
Shaggy0291 9mo ago • 100%
Step 1: Get off the internet
Shaggy0291 9mo ago • 100%
Never had any contact with them from the inside, though I do know a former member. I asked him what his plans for the future were, and it seems he's devoted to creating another new party all over again...
Shaggy0291 9mo ago • 100%
I've been following the decline of the British military for at least a few years now, but somehow it skipped me that we're down to just 70,000 personnel now. Britain looks increasingly brittle as an imperialist force.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
From what I can tell a likely scenario is:-
- ICJ correctly rules on genocide, provisional measures are supposed to then come into effect
- Israel flouts the rules, withdraws from ICJ
- Issue is forwarded to the UN security council
- America uses its veto against any security council measure against Israel.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
If thats the mark then wear it with pride
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
Whose argument is that?
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
They are more akin to petite bourgeoisie
And yet so long as they aren't petty proprietors themselves their relationship to production is proletarian, just as it would be if they were a doctor or an engineer.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
If it just disappeared in a puff of smoke? I'd be inconsolable as I've lived here my entire life. Everyone that's important to me, from my friends, to my partner, to my family, all live here. My dad's ashes have been scattered here. If England disappeared tomorrow, myself and my loved ones would immediately lose our homes and our history and immediately become stateless refugees, along with the 55.9 million other people that live here.
If you mean in the sense of some kind of Balkanisation, I'd still be extremely upset. At no point in modern history has a country ever benefited from being Balkanised; from Yugoslavia, to the collapse of the USSR, to the partition of India and the colonial carve up of China, none of these countries have materially benefitted from being divided up in this way. The people living in all of the examples cited experienced incredible suffering and instability as a direct result of Balkanisation. In England's (and more widely, the UK's) case, it would almost certainly be preyed upon by the US and the EU. Its hard enough for the British establishment to compete on a level playing field with the other imperialist powers as it is with Great Britain unified, let alone if it was split apart into several smaller and poorer independent states.
Does this mean England should exist as it does today? I don't think so, personally. I believe the UK's best future (beyond the scope of a socialist revolution, of course) is in forming a federative republic, within which England would need to be legislatively split into smaller administrative units so that it doesn't perpetuate the existing relationship between England and the rest of the UK. A federal division of the UK should be weighted primarily by population, with the aim being to ensure that each administrative unit is a similar size to Wales or Scotland, meaning a range of 3-5 million people. This means some regions of England, such as Yorkshire, the South West or the East Midlands, would translate well into such a federative system. Others would need to be redesignated, such as the North West or the South East.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
Frankly, people should have just been savagely, viciously mocking these crazies from the moment their nonsense started to pick up an audience. As someone who studied biochem at the masters level, the things these people say are so far removed from any of the accepted science and so far down the rabbit hole of looney, sensationalist Hollywood nonsense that it genuinely puzzles me that more people didn't simply bully these people for having such a tenuous grasp of reality. If I made claims half as outlandish as these people, I'd have been rightly made fun of and become a public laughing stock.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
It's not even right to call this evopsych at this point, its just quackery.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
I still maintain that enormous bungs to the military industrial complex like the F-35 programme would be immediately scrapped after the initial phase of conflict if there was ever a conventional war between the US and a peer adversary. Even if they're reasonably effective, attrition would make it functionally impossible to keep up with the enemy after a few years, due to the sheer man hours involved in getting these things built and serviced, not to mention the enormous amount of training that has to go into their crews. Given a protracted conflict, the US army would be forced to revert to relatively more simple designs that can be much more rapidly produced and deployed. Of course, it probably wouldn't ever get to this point in practice as the escalating scope of the conflict would drastically increase the likelihood of a nuclear exchange.
When the mural by Jack Hastings at Marx House in Clerkenwell Green in London was rediscovered in 1991 behind its library's bookshelves, a film was made about the artist, his work with Diego Rivera in the United States, and how the mural came to be painted at Marx House in 1934.
Shaggy0291 10mo ago • 100%
National organiser for a communist ran socialist party here. The fact of the matter is that I don't. The party comes first. Always.
In my experience, the lines between social life and party blurred once I crossed a certain threshold of commitment and time invested; party socials become your down time and your fellow party members become your closest friends. You might even meet your life partner in the party as several of my comrades have. Some have even started families together.
For context, my position with the party is now effectively my full time work. I have no fixed hours, but I'm effectively on call 24/7 and can be called on to travel across the country at a moment's notice for party work. So long as I deliver on my responsibilities I'm given complete flexibility in how I carry out my work. In that regard, I've never been more free in my entire life. However, this does mean that when times are hectic I simply cannot stop working until all my tasks are complete, which has sometimes meant taking on 12-14 hour work days.
Shaggy0291 11mo ago • 81%
...As told to you by bourgeois funded academics
Shaggy0291 12mo ago • 100%
"The transition from capitalism to communism is an entire historical epoch. Until it is over, exploiters inevitably have hope for restoration, and this hope turns into attempts at restoration. The overthrown exploiters, who did not expect to be overthrown, did not believe in it, did not allow the thought of it, with tenfold energy, with mad passion, with hatred increased 100 times, rush into battle for the return of the "paradise lost"."
- V.I. Lenin
Shaggy0291 1y ago • 100%
Someone woke up on the wrong side of his body pillow this morning...
Shaggy0291 1y ago • 100%
Happy to have our instance back tbh. Was honestly starting to think about packing it in with all the fartbrained liberals clogging up the feed.
I remember a time when Lemmy had like 10 people and we'd be lucky to get 5 upvotes to a single post. Now we actually have a functional feed that will more or less have new content every day.