Funniest thing you read today

R Totale

bad fanfic of a Trot meeting

If this is your cup of tea, I have several unpublished novels you can read.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/02/WS5c2c1905a310d91214052045.html

BEIJING - An article by Xi Jinping on dialectical materialism will be published on Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

The article will appear in the first issue of the new version of the journal in 2019.

The Party should be constantly nourished by the wisdom of Marxism philosophy and apply dialectical materialism and methodology in order to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation, said the article by Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission.

He stressed adherence to formulating policies based on reality, proactively facing and resolving conflicts, enhancing skills to cope with complex situations and problems, and unceasingly promoting theoretical innovations.

A Scottish woman's reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher

https://youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c

Red Guards Austin attack WWP/PSL:

Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) attempted to hold a protest at the intersection of East Riverside Drive and South Pleasant Valley in Southeast Austin this past Saturday. But the area is home to revolutionary forces, the enemies of revisionists. Masked militants descended on the revisionist protestors almost immediately.

https://incendiarynews.com/2019/02/04/workers-world-party-confronted-in-southeast-austin/

The video is about 2 and a bit minutes, but gets weirder by the second.
PSL/WWP Vs Red Guards Austin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtubShygZUs

Got to be Donald Tusk musing about a place in hell for mad Brexeteers.

I enjoyed the DUP's calm and measured response.

Also, sounds like fash infighting in the Portland area is threatening to reach Texas Leninist levels:
The response from Patriot Prayer's Russell Schultz is quite special.

https://mobile.twitter.com/5Pillarsuk/status/1092446532492775426
Clowns

More updates from the world of the Red Guards: I don't pretend to understand the current beef between Red Guards LA/Defend Boyle Heights and the Ovas, but it's spawned two instagram accounts dedicated to clowning on them: https://www.instagram.com/pretendboyleheights/ https://www.instagram.com/commandantwots/

This whole Twitter thread.

Thanks! Would check out the whole Twitter thread right now.

https://youtu.be/95HYKW3kTaY

Patriarchy Chicken

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2019/02/how-play-patriarchy-chicken-why-i-refuse-move-out-way-men

William Happer claiming that portraying carbon dioxide as something bad is just as terrible as the demonization of Jews in Nazi Germany

https://wrp.org.uk/news/15175

not from 1984 but from 2019

This requires the building of a new revolutionary leadership within the working class that will lead the struggle for socialist revolution.

Only the WRP and Young Socialists are building this leadership and we call on every worker and young person to join today.

AnythingForProximity

This whole Twitter thread.

Corbyn looked in the mirror, and pronounced “capitalist”.

Gotta be this:

France’s Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau has told how she calls her cat Brexit as he is “unsure whether he wants to go out or not” when the door is open.
“He wakes me up miaowing like mad because he wants to be let out,” she is reported to have written on her private Facebook page.

“As soon as I open the door, he stands in the middle, unsure whether he wants to go out or not.
“When I put him out, he gives me an evil look.”

probably not funny at all, Caleb Maupin discoveres the revolutionary potential of Julius Caesar:

[youtube]aYac7j4MUrQ[/youtube]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231563

some Scottish people: "Hold a referendum on England leaving the United Kingdom."

https://youtu.be/1hQhkANKkJM

in the early 1990s a spoof made for Soviet TV, persuaded some Russians that Vladimir Lenin's personality had been seriously affected by hallucinogenic mushrooms. The mushrooms in question were the deadly poisonous fly agaric fungi which the programme alleged Lenin had eaten whilst in exile in Siberia. Dina Newman has spoken to journalist Sergei Sholokhov who presented the TV spoof.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/man-reports-takeaway-to-police-in-york-after-his-portion-of-chips-was-too-small-1-9681849

A man in York flagged down a police officer to complain that his portion of takeaway chips was too small.

Zinoviev on Bordiga:

E' un palo telegrafico. Dov'è piantato, dopo dieci anni lì lo trovate.

(He's like a telegraph pole. Where you place him, there you'll find him ten years later.)

The world's first invariance joke!

Q: How does a Bordigist change a lightbulb?

A: Bordigists don't have to change lightbulbs, theirs are invariant!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QLRVPMK/

£6.99 for 54 pages

Nice:

Just another naive libertarian who loves capitalism but knows nothing about it. I know "capitalism is when people agree to do a thing and then do it" is not the most original silly take but it tickled me. Sadly the sex worker responding to him has blocked him so he's just sat there being wrong.

https://twitter.com/JamesHubert314/status/1125119842279989248

Entdinglichung

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QLRVPMK/

£6.99 for 54 pages

To be fair, this actually looks pretty good!

https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/endorsed/

Entdinglichung

https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/endorsed/

Proof, as if any further is needed, of the accuracy of the old saying “politics makes strange bedfellows”.
Maybe we could see a further alliance between the commie part and Comrade Galloway?!!!

Noah Fence

Entdinglichung

https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/endorsed/

Proof, as if any further is needed, of the accuracy of the old saying “politics makes strange bedfellows”.
Maybe we could see a further alliance between the commie part and Comrade Galloway?!!!

Critical support for Comrade Farage in his protracted war on the Gang of 28s revisionist alliance. pic.twitter.com/58IoGuew8g

— Reddebrek

https://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/brexit-leading-better-pay-and-conditions-says-survey

For some time now a raft of evidence has suggested that the prospect of Brexit is leading to a rise in wages. New research from LinkedIn, released today (Monday 13 May) indicates that conditions of work may be improving too.

LinkedIn’s survey found that three-quarters of recruitment companies have seen a rise in the number of businesses looking to find staff from within Britain. The trend coincides with a reduction in the number of jobseekers in the EU looking for work in Britain.

this 2018 tweet from Elon Musk calling himself a socialist that I'm just now seeing

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209

oh and this

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1007758296336330753

https://shirazsocialism.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/a-stir-in-the-suburbs/

British Trotskyists Say:

Brexit Now!

For a Workers Europe!

Leftists who think not boycotting makes you a scab

https://twitter.com/KateFlood/status/1148873827188912134?s=09

I am enjoying this inventive approach to fundraising: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-lil-nas-x-to-perform-as-we-storm-area-51

"On September 20th, we're taking our horses to Area 51 to see them aliens.

If we can raise $100,000 before then, we are going to book Lil Nas X to perform, on horseback, just outside of the compound. The concert will be free to every brave bastard who made the trip.

If we cannot raise the full amount to book Lil Nas X, or if he is unavailable, all funds raised will be donated to Casa Carmelita, a new community space in El Paso, TX that provides support to migrant families."

Entdinglichung

British Trotskyists Say:

Brexit Now!

For a Workers Europe!

Brexit = Workers Europe?
LLLLOOOOOLLLL

zugzwang

Leftists who think not boycotting makes you a scab

https://twitter.com/KateFlood/status/1148873827188912134?s=09

But in this case the workers are on strike, so isn't it a form of scabbing to shop there while the strike is ongoing? That's how I see it but maybe I'm missing something.

R Totale

I am enjoying this inventive approach to fundraising: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-lil-nas-x-to-perform-as-we-storm-area-51

LOL, awesome!

Definitely one of the stranger mainstream media articles on anarchism I've seen.

Enough With Crumbs, I want the Cake, by Mona Eltahawy: Power is anarchy. It dismantles patriarchal social structures and allows us to rebuild them with equity at their foundation.

I wanted the boy and the two girls sitting with his family to know that women could be presidents and leaders. Much as with ambition, you need to see what you want to become. Egypt once had a queen called Hatshepsut who ruled for more than 20 years during the 15th century B.C. She was, for a time, the most powerful person in the ancient world. But I wanted someone who was still alive to point to as a reminder that women could be powerful.

Had there been more time, I would have told those children that power is more complicated than presidents and chancellors. That power lives in more places than the presidential office. That there is a difference between power wielded in service of a few and power wielded in service of all.

In the intervening years, two of those countries that were led by women during the 2014 World Cup have served as reminders that when it comes to patriarchy and power, the truth is much more complicated than simply asking “Can a woman be president?” We must ask equally pertinent questions: Is that woman feminist? Is she invested in dismantling patriarchy? Will she use her power to uphold or diminish patriarchy? Both Brazil and Germany have given us complicated answers.

http://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/en/gonzalo-en/3459-interview-of-the-century-on-the-theory-of-the-cult-of-the-personality

Electoralism vs Direct Action

https://youtu.be/IfjmDQElnac

Antifa x edm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bmE9XY3sOc

A woke NASA engineer concluded that sending a bunch of microorganisms to the Moon was "imperialism", and only white dudes would disagree:

http://twitter.com/AstroTraviesa/status/1160320076874207232

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n99q/milo-yiannopoulos-says-hes-broke

The disgraced right-wing troll is complaining that the major social media companies have effectively cut off his alt-right audience — and crushed his ability to make a decent living.

Speaking of right-wing trolls – I've been flipping through Michael Heinrich's new biography of Marx (recently uploaded to the Libcom library), and apparently, Ludwig Feuerbach wrote this back in 1839:

Feuerbach

Fantasy is the subjective intellectual activity that depicts things as they correspond to feeling; reason is the objective intellectual activity that depicts things as they are, without regard for the needs of feeling

Sounds an awful lot like "facts don't care about your feelings". Is Ben Shapiro a young Hegelian?!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2019/sep/10/a-little-help-from-my-neo-marxist-philosopher-adorno-fifth-beatle-according-olavo-carvalho

According to the Brazilian president’s political guru Olavo Carvalho, the band ‘barely knew how to play the guitar’, and their songs were written by the leading member of the Frankfurt School

Anyone fancy an anarchist meet up? This is actually serious - they genuinely consider themselves anarchists.

https://anarchapulco.com/

So, an "anarachist" Fyre festival?

Khawaga

So, an "anarachist" Fyre festival?

Well not really - apparently it’s gone off successfully for several years. I’m guessing it’s a sort of business seminar for edgy conservatives.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-galton-wanted-libertarian-paradise-in-anarchapulco-he-got-bullets-instead

In a previous iteration they tried setting up an ancap paradise in Mexico, pissed off the cartels, with not unsurprising results.

www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-goods/2019/5/2/18527110/burger-king-unhappy-meals-steakumms-sad-brand-twitter

Burger king's answer to mcdonald's happy meals, "depression meals"...

Damn, that daily beast article was a weird, but good, read.

Not really something I read as such, but just had a dream where I was watching a documentary that talked about a police operation directed by "the famous French police chief Henri Simon". Not really sure what made my subconscious slander him that way.

When asked what evidence there was that Corbyn would repeal UC, the pro Corbyn ‘anarchist’ replied...

He said he would

Well that’s cleared that up then!

Got sucked into reading some election coverage on Vice and this quite tickled me:

Here, we profile the other electoral tribes whose vote could swing this knife-edge election...

RELUCTANT LABOUR-VOTING ANARCHIST

Will spend the first half of the campaign being disappointed at the Labour party for not being pro-migrant and anti-police, before coming round to the idea that five more years of Tory rule will make things materially worse. Eventually, they will allow themselves to post one ironic pro-Corbyn meme the day before the party pledges to equip every police officer and border guard with a taser.

Quietly votes Labour in the end with the same 'oh well, fuck it' attitude as impulse-buying an expensive coat. After all, a four-day week and eased property legislation might mean more squat parties. Will end up hating the Labour party all the more in the long run, whatever the outcome.

I actually saw a comment on Facebook stating that if you didn’t vote Labour in the forthcoming election you couldn’t seriously consider yourself an anarchist!
One deeply impressive attribute of the Corbyn supporter is their ability to repeatedly swerve questions pertaining to the attacks on the homeless and social cleansing policies of Labour councils! Ask once they’ll ignore it, another two or three times and they’ll do the same. Around the fifth time they’ll accuse you of privilege or or having no knowledge of how it is to be sick or poor(which is hilarious consider my experiences) and by the sixth or seventh you get called a boomer and banned from the group!
Amazingly, this is just as likely to happen on an anarchist group as a liberal one. Fucking hell.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/e1hfoi/death_is_preferable/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Noah Fence

I actually saw a comment on Facebook stating that if you didn’t vote Labour in the forthcoming election you couldn’t seriously consider yourself an anarchist!

I think this somehow illustrates that the term anarchist has now come to just be a name for a generally activist, Leftoid type.

e-mail I got on my workplace address:

Greetings, from The illuminati world elite empire. Bringing the poor, the needy and the talented to limelight of fame, riches, powers and security, get recognized in your business, political race, rise to the top in whatever you do, be protected spiritually and physically! All these you will achieve in a twinkle of an eye when you get initiated to the great Illuminati empire. Once you are initiated to the illuminati empire you will get numerous benefits and reward.
Note: that this email message was created solely for the purpose of our recruitment scheme which will end next month and this offer is for unique ones only, if you are not serious on joining the illuminati empire, then you are advise not to contact us at all. This is because disloyalty is highly not tolerated here in our organization.
Do you agree to be a member of the illuminati new world order? If YES!. Then kindly reply us back on our direct recruitment email only at: [email protected] Please note, Kindly make sure all your response are send directly to the email stated above only at:> [email protected] For more instructions on our membership process.
Note: Some email providers incorrectly place official Illuminati messages in their spam / junk folder or promotion folder. This can divert and exclude our responses to your emails.
The Illuminati.

In Defense of Kenny G (Jacobin)

With the 1 percent’s abandonment of its traditional patronage role, it should be obvious to us more than ever that our prospects are intrinsically connected to the 99 percent. At the same time, it should also be apparent that many of the barriers preventing the kind of multi-class alliance we need are of our own creation. Our reflexive tendency to consign to “a basket of deplorables” those whose tastes, musical and otherwise, and cultural sensibilities fail to comport with the arbitrary dictates of educated elites is one of the most conspicuous of these.

Breaking this unattractive habit doesn’t require that we take any great pleasure in listening to Kenny G. Rather, all that is necessary when interacting with those who do is to remember the old kindergarten adage that one should either say something nice or nothing at all.

If we are to take seriously our goal of developing a social base for a mass left politics, that is a sacrifice we should all be willing to make. Joining the millions of others already floating their cares away to the cool, smooth tones of Kenny Gorelick might not be everyone’s idea of a socialist utopia, but it’s pretty easy to imagine a lot worse.

https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/2020/01/09/subtitle-mix-up-turns-austrian-cabinet-inauguration-into-soap-opera

Austrian public broadcaster ORF added a bizarre touch to the swearing-in of the new conservative-Green coalition government when it mistakenly ran subtitles from a telenovela.

The incident went viral Wednesday after it mistakenly aired with soap opera subtitles of "Alisa – Follow Your Heart," suggesting he was offering the president a job as a cleaning lady.

Before we can get to the funny, here's the (very unfunny) OP for context

https://reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/emlovi/facebook_is_forcing_its_moderators_to_log_every/

Facebook Is Forcing Its Moderators to Log Every Second of Their Days — Even in the Bathroom: “People have to clock in and clock out even when going to the toilet and explain the reason why they were delayed, which is embarrassing and humiliating.”

Now here's the good stuff. This is the top comment on the post:

DendroNate

Used to work for a company who did this. The staff rebelled by taking it way overboard and clocking out for every tiny thing. Stuff like "Dropped pen. Picking it up." Or "Couldn't find glasses. Realised they were on my head."

Once the management realised that they had to wade through all this tedious crap and didn't have time to do much else, they soon swept the whole idea under the rug.

Also this reply comment

S_Nickels

Spend 5 minutes looking for pen.

Spent 1 minute updating production log.

Spent 1 minute logging previous activity.

Spent 1 minute logging previous activity of logging previous activity.

These small working-class victories with a mild dose of vengeance give me a warm fuzzy glow and a great big smile.

That's is bets funniest things.

https://en.internationalism.org/content/16802/who-who-nuevo-curso

We have now learned that during the same period he wanted to discuss joining the ICC, he took part in and was the main animator in Spain of the tendency called cyberpunk, and a promoter of cyber activism

I am, um, not completely convinced that the IWW's new branding is a good idea.

https://wrp.org.uk/editorials/workers-forced-brexit-through-now-bring-down-johnson-to-bring-in-a-workers-government-socialism/

This might have been posted already but I came across it today.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=libcom

https://irishelectionliterature.com/2020/02/04/leaflet-from-colm-okeeffe-independent-dublin-south-west-ge2020/

Massive Mohammed is a much better name, tho.

jef costello

This might have been posted already but I came across it today.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=libcom

libcom
A "libertarian communist" forum. Full of self-righteous idiots with their heads up their asses. Not really anarchists, mostly just closet Marxists who don't understand the concept of disagreement
libcom user 1: Jolly mate, do you agree with Bakunin's theory of XYZ?

libcom user 2: FASCIST!!!!

Fond memories.

http://libcom.org/blog/swamp-maoism-01032020

This was an event that happened. Props to Kliman btw for challenging Rick (and other Stalin apologists) on there having been socialist countries.

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/alternatives-to-capital/video-boots-riley-andrew-kliman-and-rick-wolff-debate-morality-of-stalinism-and-western-capitalism.html

Kliman vigorously condemned the crimes of Stalinism and “leftist” support and apologetics for them, saying that they have besmirched the cause of genuine socialism, setting it back decades–if not permanently. Riley said that “mistakes” had been made, but he refrained from condemning Stalinist regimes. Wolff also refrained from even the slightest condemnation of them, attacked Kliman personally, and alleged that leftist opponents of Stalinism had done the most harm to the cause of socialism (presumably more than Pol Pot’s killing fields, the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution, etc., etc.). A fourth speaker, graduate student Bennett Shoop, also put forward a pro-Stalinist line.

Not something I read but came across on TV, quite a while ago with either CNN or MSNBC on in the background. One of the news personalities was fiddling with those large interactive screens displaying all sorts of data. He was breaking down for the viewers some state district by district to preview a Democratic primary and how votes may be distributed among the candidates. He casually employed the term "gritty" as an adjective for the working class, presumably Sander's support base.

Self-depreciating humour from myself

The SPGB have been self-isolating since 1904

:)

Not on here they haven't. But they don't seem at all contagious.

^ Above two posts are top-quality leftist humor. :D

I still remember Chilli Sauce's joke...

What did the Trotskyist do when he found his wife in bed with another man?

Try to sell him a paper.

I thought this was funny

https://i.redd.it/ofiu2fpka2r41.jpg

This article on the Irish cement strike has a bunch of great sections like this:

(It is also perhaps true to say that the fact that one of the defendants, who had several previous convictions, had skipped bail, with our prior knowledge, and hadn't helped matters by ringing up Walmsiey, a judge whom he knew of old, on the morning, of the trial and giving his name. "Why aren't you in court this morning?" asked RM Albert. "You have to catch me first, motherfucker" was the rejoinder, which, however apposite. may not have done his co-defendants any good.)

http://libcom.org/library/great-irish-cement-strike-1970-fe-3-c-cement

From a Facebook Anarchist-Communist group...

So as an anarcho capitalist I understand that it’s not only moral, but is also absolutely natural that I live as an entirely independent being. I rely on nobody in any way shape or form. I am capable, I am strong, I need nobody else.
I did not need some false ideology like all you socialists, as I say, my philosophy comes straight from nature. And so, the moment I was born, I told my mom to keep her fucking commie titties to herself and started to drink from my own.
I now only eat food I grew myself on land that I worked with tools I made myself with metal I forged myself from the raw materials I mined myself.
I drive a car a built myself powered by fuel I refined from oil that I dug for and struck for myself. Obviously I only drive on roads I laid myself so if I’m going somewhere new I lay ten feet of road, drive to the edge, get out of my car and lay another ten feet of road and so on. Takes a long ass time to get anywhere but it sure beats being a weak ass, soy girl commie cucktard like all you so called ‘anarchists’ on this page.
I only came on this World Wide Web so I could tell you snowflake commies how pathetic you are but I’m getting off it now. I don’t need this shit, I’m gonna build my own.

Amazingly, a number of people took this seriously and took the time to deconstruct the author’s position!

Fozzie

This article on the Irish cement strike has a bunch of great sections like this:
...
http://libcom.org/library/great-irish-cement-strike-1970-fe-3-c-cement

This bit was mint too:

The destruction of 27 lorries by person or persons unknown ended the lorry running from Armagh, but the habit had spread unfortunately to Newry where five cement loads were destroyed. Here it is true to say that it was perhaps more due to the zeal of the Newry fire brigade who were summoned on several occasions to parked cement lorries which were, they were informed by local bystanders, on fire. In vain did the drivers protest that this was not so and that the token fire had been extinguished.

The stern-faced and diligent Newry fire brigade, all union members, solemnly hosed down five loads of cement, inadvertently destroying them, but doubtless saving the town from a mighty conflagration.

Also, this cartoon is certainly, um, something. I think my favourite detail is the guy with an icepick having a flat cap so you can tell he's a real proper working class hero.

“Former Morning Star cartoonist” woah.

Yeah, that's one of those sentences that seems like it has a bit of backstory to it, and I'm simultaneously kind of curious but also really don't want to know what it is.

Well it's not like he was kicked out for having better politics than the Morning Star, is it? ;-)

I'm gonna carefully replace that rock and get back to my day I think. :p

If he's joined the CPGB-ML he may have ditched his gig himself. I remember stumbling upon their official blog account and it was really gunning for the revisionists at the CPB and its propaganda rag. Though that didn't stop them advertising their own news paper in it. :tongue:

Hah! Had a brief look and found this as well:

A group of yuppies join together to shout at a 5G pole and tell it to go away

https://www.facebook.com/groups/byronbay/permalink/3156026001095410/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7857497/Iranian-cleric-says-fictional-heroes-like-spongebob-spiderman.html

https://mobile.twitter.com/LabTransformed/status/1256142878256087042
Labour Transformed and Momentum quoting Durruti and May '68

wojtek

https://mobile.twitter.com/LabTransformed/status/1256142878256087042
Labour Transformed and Momentum quoting Durruti and May '68

Surely the anarcho Labourites and Plan C elements? Either way.... for fuck sake.

It's a very niche genre, but for those who have fond memories of Charlottesville organizer Jason Kessler getting yelled at by his dad in the middle of doing a video, a new competitor has appeared:

During the livestream, he drove back to his mother’s house, anticipating a law enforcement presence, asking for “a couple of close buddies [to] pop over to my house in case shit happens, we can have EVAC set up and all that…. I ain’t gonna be caught lacking for exercising my Second Amendment rights. If they want to fucking fight, we can fucking fight.”

“My mom does not like this shit at all. She’s probably going to be really fucking pissed off,” he added... During the livestream, he set the phone down outside his mother’s house, but viewers could hear the conversation inside.

“What the fuck are you doing?” his mother yelled at him as soon as he entered the door. “Maybe because you’re posting stupid fucking shit on Facebook."

Just need a few more before we can compile the "top 10 fascists accidentally broadcasting themselves getting told off by their parents".

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5808.htm
The price of this... one wonders who it is written for.

Academic books are often priced like that. I'm sure it'll be on libgen in no time

I like the photo-collage they've made at the top there, and as rhetorical flourishes go, I'm not sure "it is time for a long overdue rejection of Libcom, their “Working Class History” front, and everything it represents from our timelines and our movement" works quite as well as intended.

R Totale

I like the photo-collage they've made at the top there, and as rhetorical flourishes go, I'm not sure "it is time for a long overdue rejection of Libcom, their “Working Class History” front, and everything it represents from our timelines and our movement" works quite as well as intended.

"Peace, Jobs, and Socialism" is such an awful slogan...

http://www.solfed.org.uk/south-london/hardcore-troublemaker-anarchist-group-laughs-off-millbank-blame-game
Same poop different year

Solid work from the K-Pop fan community there.

Attention, "anteefa" in NW Georgia - your plans to burn down churches have been foiled

Historian David Osoluga's series is on TogetherTv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082x0h6/episodes/guide
Liverpool went full confederacy while the white working-class in Lancashire then suffering during the cotton famine showed solidarity with black slaves in America.

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While checking on the availability of various useful documents, enjoyed the wording of this Parliamentary EDM, which would be a great source of blurb quotes for the next print edition.

"Marxist" David Harvey arguing that capitalism is too big to fail, that we must not attack capital accumulation, we need to give up our outdated fantasies of revolution, and keep the circulation of capital in motion or we'll all starve.

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1274716400351948802

"Marxist" David Harvey arguing that capitalism is too big to fail, that we must not attack capital accumulation, we need to give up our outdated fantasies of revolution, and keep the circulation of capital in motion or we'll all starve.

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1274716400351948802

While his comments have been taken a bit out of context, even with the context it's pretty much the same argument. Harvey is now another Richard Wolff, someone who wants capitalism with some minor modifications.

Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony

Khawaga

"Marxist" David Harvey arguing that capitalism is too big to fail, that we must not attack capital accumulation, we need to give up our outdated fantasies of revolution, and keep the circulation of capital in motion or we'll all starve.

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1274716400351948802

While his comments have been taken a bit out of context, even with the context it's pretty much the same argument. Harvey is now another Richard Wolff, someone who wants capitalism with some minor modifications.

I appreciate Wolff as someone who helps push people to the left; he's such a powerful speaker. But yeah, that co-op capitalism shit (market "socialism") is weak sauce.

wojtek

Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony

What's so funny about unrest in some poor third world...

Oh.

I appreciate Wolff as someone who helps push people to the left; he's such a powerful speaker. But yeah, that co-op capitalism shit (market "socialism") is weak sauce.

He is an incredible speaker, which confused me the first time I saw him speak because how he said things were so much better than what he said; I thought I wasn't hearing things properly, but then I realized that is was Wolff speaking...

Not so sure he's pushing people to the left. In the places I've seen him speak, the effect of his talks would be to push people to the right.

While we're on the topic of the struggle of some academics to research what they're talking about, here's a college-level economics textbook by Greg Mankiw:

Throughout his tenure, Mugabe’s economic philosophy was Marxist, and one of his goals was to redistribute wealth.

Marx predicted that the return to capital would decline over time and that this would lead to economic and political crisis. Economic history has not supported Marx’s prediction, which partly explains why we now study Solow’s theory of growth rather than Marx’s.

In this section, we continue to develop our model of the economy by discussing how these factor markets work. Economists have long studied factor markets to understand the distribution of income. For example, Karl Marx, the noted nineteenth-century economist, spent much time trying to explain the incomes of capital and labor. The political philosophy of communism was in part based on Marx’s now-discredited theory.

which might have something to do with why students walked out of his class in 2011 (though I guess not as shocking since he's a right-winger who advised Bush on economic policy)...

From another forum

The HMS Holdomor

I am the very model of an online Marxist-Leninist
My enemies are anarchists and Ess-Jay-Dub degenerates
I know the crimes of capital and for my turn I cannot wait
To threaten random workers on the internet, I stay up late

I'm very well-acquainted, too, with matters dialectical
though I prefer my fantasies to anything material
About the Uyghur genocide I toe the Jinping party line
it isn't really happening but also it is very fine

Defending a dictatorship, I like to help out where I can
Imperial expansion's good unless it is American
My org has split a dozen times whenever somebody gets pissed
I am the very model of an online Marxist-Leninist!

There is also a dramatic reading

https://clyp.it/zqmj5run

I made this and its a video so its technically cheating, but that Harvey clip got on my nerves so I made this

https://youtu.be/XZXL4c2Nn6s

Labour PM Harold Wilson may have chose not to attend MLK'S funeral, because he had a routine dentist appointment.
Pg 184
https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/7264

https://deadline.com/2020/06/sacha-baron-cohen-crashes-right-wing-event-leads-singalong-1202972079/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand-idUSKBN248026

The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of up to $1 million, according to data released Monday by the Trump administration.

...

The institute referred Reuters to a May 15 article, in which board member Harry Binswanger and senior fellow Onkar Ghate wrote that the organization would take any relief money offered from the CARES Act. “We will take it unapologetically, because the principle here is: justice,” they wrote, adding that “the government has no wealth of its own…. It can only redistribute the wealth of others.”

...

In a 1962 essay, Rand wrote of seventeenth century French businessmen: “They knew that government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution, and that the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”

Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

I love the run on sentences, it's like he had some good lines but they didn't fit, so instead of cutting down the words he just made the melodies needlessly longer.

I like to think this is what would have played over public loudspeakers if England became a Soviet Republic

These are the vanguard.

Khawaga

Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

[youtube]wnauDrzdOiQ[/youtube]

my favourite worst song of Cardew ... strong similarities to Christian pop songs of that period

IslamQA: is it permissible to eat mermaids?

Khawaga wrote:
Quote:
Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

my favourite worst song of Cardew ... strong similarities to Christian pop songs of that period

The lyrics and the singing, just what was he thinking? Really funny tho

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2020/jul/07/david-squires-on-wigan-athletic-going-into-administration
I'm a Tankie now. Sorry not sorry.

The US Libertarian Party has a Libertarian Socialist Caucus.

https://www.facebook.com/LibSocCaucus/

Maybe between them they can figure out what Aleppo is. It's kind of funny the US right appropriated the term "libertarian" for themselves (as Rothbard says himself) and now "libertarian socialist" caucuses are forming inside their party.

Between 2007 and 2014, Russian investors gobbled up UK real estate at a staggering rate of knots. Data from JLL estimates that in early 2014 almost 10% of all money spent in property in London was Russian. In the luxury residential market, numbers were even higher. According to Knight Frank, more than 20% of London homes with asking prices in excess of £10m were purchased by Russians.

Russian investors: welcome to Londongrad

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-25/ok-boomer-coronavirus-is-turning-millennials-into-socialists

The pandemic is turning Millennials into socialists. We must make them a better offer. [...] And as I’ve argued, this means reviving classical liberalism — not in the American sense of “left” but in the European sense of “freedom.”

I'm pretty sure classical economics and its derivatives, all taking a capitalist commodity-exchanging economy as their eternal sacred basis, "won" and is why you see Smith's and Malthus's ideas praised in textbooks and Marx's condemned. Not sure what there is to revive, kind of like people saying this isn't genuine capitalism but crony capitalism.

This is also awful but expected coming from the billionaire's website

Whether Millennials actually use the word “socialism” properly — as government ownership of the means of production — is moot. More likely, they simply want better public policy that addresses their specific problems. Even then, however, they often fall prey to political snake oil such as rent controls or wealth taxes.

https://revcom.us/index.htmlhttps://revcom.us/a/659/bob-avakian_statement-on-the-immediate-critical-situation-en.html

At this critical hour, every appropriate means of non-violent action must be utilized to remove this regime from power. And if, in spite of mass protest demanding the removal of the Trump/Pence regime, this regime remains in power when it is time for voting, then—without placing fundamental reliance on this—using all appropriate means to work for the removal of this regime must include voting against Trump (assuming the election is actually held). To be clear, this means not a “protest vote” for some candidate who has no chance of winning, but actually voting for the Democratic Party candidate, Biden, in order to effectively vote against Trump.

Entdinglichung

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand-idUSKBN248026

The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of up to $1 million, according to data released Monday by the Trump administration.

...

The institute referred Reuters to a May 15 article, in which board member Harry Binswanger and senior fellow Onkar Ghate wrote that the organization would take any relief money offered from the CARES Act. “We will take it unapologetically, because the principle here is: justice,” they wrote, adding that “the government has no wealth of its own…. It can only redistribute the wealth of others.”

...

In a 1962 essay, Rand wrote of seventeenth century French businessmen: “They knew that government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution, and that the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”

And the gold medal in Mental Gymnastics goes to...

Khawaga

Khawaga wrote:
Quote:
Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

my favourite worst song of Cardew ... strong similarities to Christian pop songs of that period

The lyrics and the singing, just what was he thinking? Really funny tho

So bad it's good!

A football presenter just named and quoted Mikhail Bakunin (all property is theft) on talksport radio. Unexpected.

At the risk of pedantry, I'm almost sure that line was Proudhon rather than Bakunin. Still an interesting choice of reference though.

Also, I think this story is one that's likely to remain stuck in my head for a while: Gun Enthusiasts Celebrate Man Who Shot Himself in the Balls as Their King

That reminds me, several years ago I ended up watching an car race that took place in Catalonia, the program started about an hour before the race did, and curiously they chose to fill much of the time with a mini documentary about Anarchism in Barcelona, I don't remember it very well but I do remember they superimposed black and white film footage of the CNT and Durruti over footage of cars racing about and the narrator a scruffy fellow with a bushy but dishevelled beard reading a passage from the Spanish civil war and declaring "Anarchism... I love it!"

I actually changed the channel once the race started but I'd love to know what race that was and if its coverage has been uploaded anywhere, that would be strange addition to film archive.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/suspended-afd-politician-andreas-kalbitz-friendly-punch-put-colleague-in-hospital

A German far-right politician suspended by Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is under investigation by authorities after sending a party colleague to hospital with a “friendly” punch to the torso.

Andreas Kalbitz, a former neo-Nazi who is fighting for his party membership in the courts, reportedly ruptured the spleen of his temporary replacement in the Brandenburg state parliament, Dennis Hohloch, in an incident on 10 August.

But who would win out of Andreas Kalbitz versus Mike Hookem? There's only one way to settle this!

SLABHEAD GOES ACAB
AT GOLDEN DAWN PIGS
FREE THE MANC ONE
*Taunts Albanian irrendist Dua Lipa*

Can I be in Class War now?

If you want to read George Padmore's book 'White Man's Duty', it is £150-250.

Apparently supporting the British Raj in India and restoring Euro colonialism in Vietnam and Indonesia were the least worst options and criticising them makes me a nationalist baddie.

Obviously, I still think gun fetishism is bad, the power of an insurrection is social not military etc, but I thought these Australian posters were pretty funny:

Apparently supporting the British Raj in India and restoring Euro colonialism in Vietnam and Indonesia were the least worst options and criticising them makes me a nationalist baddie

Well, duh ;)

anarchist jurisdictions

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/21/doj-calls-new-york-portland-seattle-anarchist-may-withhold-funds/5851329002/

WhAts yOuR sTrAtErGy

https://redflag.org.au/node/7385

A smattering of demonstrators gathered on the first floor outside Coles supermarket for a shortened rendition of John Farnham’s “You’re the voice” to object to the ongoing economic and personal disruptions caused by the state’s coronavirus lockdown.

I quite enjoyed these:

I’ve just found out that “the trots” is slang for diarrhea :D. I always thought it was just a harmless political abbreviation, like “anarchos” or “commies”.

Novara being indifferent to Trump dying but hoping Johnson recovered, because he's a worker.

been consoling myself that Trump might pull a Bolsonaro, rather than a Herman Cain, in this clip of Pence getting closer to god...

[youtube]YjYRh60SNPc[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYRh60SNPc

I'm triggered
https://mobile.twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1321036418806771713

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/us-capitol-rioters-donald-trump-pardons

Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, has pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities.

After surrendering to the FBI on Friday, Ryan said: “We all deserve a pardon.”

“I’m facing a prison sentence,” she told CBS11 at her home. “I think I do not deserve that.”

Turning to look into the camera, she said: “I would ask the president of the United States to give me a pardon.

....

She climbed the steps of the Capitol, then promoted her real estate business to camera: “Y’all know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor.”

source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=287854256037632&set=a.277266653763059

Joma Sison, supreme leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) performing a love song

[youtube]AZFfMMe8Iy8[/youtube]

https://blackhammer.org/hammercity/

I found this funny:

https://libriincogniti.wordpress.com/2021/03/16/radical-reprints-the-wish-com-of-publishing/

Both in the article itself and in the idea of a group of left communists sitting down to angrily type a critique of a small, money-losing publisher most leftists have never heard of

sherbu-kteer

I found this funny:

https://libriincogniti.wordpress.com/2021/03/16/radical-reprints-the-wish-com-of-publishing/

Both in the article itself and in the idea of a group of left communists sitting down to angrily type a critique of a small, money-losing publisher most leftists have never heard of

Attention Workers! Parasites out there!

https://twitter.com/BlkHmmrTimes/status/1389229760392409095

Is it too dark to say that I immediately thought of:

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1361/letters/

In their steadfast struggle against all forms of pseudo-left vulgarisations of revolutionary Marxism, David North and the Socialist Equality Party have won the rank-and-file proletariat to a genuine Marxist programme.

Ah, the other Northern Alliance.

https://twitter.com/HegelwCrmCheese/status/1432794606073257988?s=20

https://nypost.com/2021/10/02/grimes-reads-karl-marx-after-split-with-worlds-richest-man-elon-musk/

https://communistpartyofgreatbritainhistory.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/british-swp-ycl/

Despite Tengely-Evans’s rhetorical finger-wagging over Stalinism, the SWP’s party regime shares some quite profound similarities with that of the CPB/YCL ‘party of a new type’. With one rider: the CPB is a little bit more open than the SWP; YCL members are generally better educated than their SWP counterparts; and it’s often possible to debate with CPB/YCL members on a reasonably comradely basis without undergoing the SWP amateur dramatics that would accompany such happenings. That’s not saying an awful lot, but it only underlines how desperately unappealing and boring the SWP is. What’s worse is that its members do appear to be realising all that in a latent and coded manner.

Not really funny, but I learned Sean Lennon is an ancap recently. I guess a working class hero's not actually something to be...

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Genesis 3:19

In the introduction to his book (The living fields: our agricultural heritage) on the origin and evolution of agriculture, Jack R Harlan contrasts this passage from Genesis with accounts of agriculture in other ancient religious texts. He says that it stands out for the fact that it describes agriculture as a curse not a blessing. However, we must remember that the verse from Genesis refers to agriculture carried out after Man's fall from grace or exile from Eden, which I interpret to mean our "life" outside of primitive communism, when class rule has been imposed.

"This primitive accumulation plays in political economy about the same part as original sin in theology."

Marx's theology is off the mark. Original sin, a concoction of Paul (formerly Saul), is anathema to the Hebrew mindset of Genesis, which does not view "human nature as irrevocably tainted by some sort of original sin". Marx is half right. Genesis does record the advent of primitive accumulation, the expropriation of a surplus product by an expropriating class, when it tells of the slaying of Abel by Cain and the expulsion of Cain to the Land of Nod, east of Eden.

Our species, homo, evolved in the forest region. Adam lived in his peaceful habitation on the African savana gathering what He needed. The movement to the highlands resulted in adoption of the hoe to till the ground to sustain Cain. Seth's movement down the river Nile resulted in the adoption of accumulative methods of agriculture, the development of the plough and adoption of beasts of burden in the process.

The prehistoric, i.e. pre-class society, subsistence farming of Africa (a land analogous with the geographic description of Eden in Genesis 2:10-14) stands in stark contrast with historic, commercial, accumulative farming that developed around the Nile basin approximately twelve thousand years ago. One misunderstanding regarding subsistence farming is that it did not produce a surplus. It did, according to Harlan, but the surplus was retained by the producer, not expropriated by another.

This is a big topic and I'm not retaining Marx's ascerbic wit to explain it but then I don't have his bugbears to use as the object of humour.

Entdinglichung wrote: https://wrp.org.uk/editorials/new-right-wing-party-to-replace-tories-being-organised-as-spectre-of-revolution-haunts-british-capitalism/

Quote: "The spectre of revolution is haunting Britain – the spectre of socialist revolution."

Believe it or not these people still publish a daily paper!