"Socialism is not bread alone" - Any socialists in the house? Is there any future on England's dreaming?

Socialist Party of Great Britain
Leader none
Founded 1904
Headquarters Clapham, London
Ideology Impossibilism

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Possibilism

irl lol

now you see why I like it so much xp also lolling

Socialist Party of Great Britain
Leader noneLJ
Founded 1904
Headquarters Clapham, London
Ideology Impossibilism

even a "localized consensus" against capitalism is only really progressive if it's also a consensus around some concrete positive program or organization... seems less important to me that everyone be on the same page about who the enemy is and why shit is so fucked than that they agree on WHAT IS TO BE DONE, i.e. finding new egalitarian methods to organize a relatively open collective existence outside of the capitalist system

btw the SPGB has made a short film! and here it is (first US stream works): http://socialist-tv.com/

will watch it tomorrow and report back

nakhchivan the idea of a leader is ttly anathema to this crowd!! although maybe they just haven't met the *right* leader yet

that's what i'm saying

like I would gladly let some hippie burnout or obama voter eat some of my vegetables and make me shoes out of hemp -- I just wouldn't trust them with the keys to my tank

r u suggestin that LJ = Stalin 4 the Skins era?

(to nakhchivan)

WHAT IS TO BE DONE, i.e. finding new egalitarian methods to organize a relatively open collective existence outside of the capitalist system

this is pretty much 95% of what this guy discussed - each infrastructural and governing system would be run differently by a committee of field experts I think - gift economy, surplusses offered to other regions, etc etc

military to be reduced and converted to a troubleshooting natural disaster cracksquad

btw <3 for your edited version but if you'd been rly slick it'd have been amended to Charlton, London

srsly how about we get this googleproofed and watch lj's entryist ascendancy within the moribund clapham (pronounced clayfum) socialist scene

careful now I might fail their prohibitive entrance exam

it is unproductive and unrealistic to expect critical thinking skills from prospective recruits. propaganda and coercion are preferable. it is not the quality of recruits, but the quantity that matters.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2009/251/2/6/MUSE___Resistance_by_DigiQ8.jpg

i really want a "das socialist!" animated gif, but the internet seems to have not produced one yet. sad.

lol nrq

how is the revolution going to manage while you're swanning about in new zealand?

Wait your mum thinks that "they" are going to bother tapping your phone for walking into a SWP office? If that were the case they'd be doing that for half the students in Britain at one point or another.

I once gave directions to a communist and now the police keep following me every night, last time I ever try to be social minded.

NZ is actually more likely to function as a far-left-libertarian breeding-ground than here - for a start, the thriving Maori culture is already highly anti-authoritarian and communal.

That video I linked upthread is awesome btw. Guy's such a superb asshole :D

r u suggestin that LJ = Stalin 4 the Skins era?

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 16 October 2010 03:52 (2 weeks ago)

http://i.imgur.com/wgF0A.jpg

and this is how Cambridge educated ilx poster got recruited by MI6?

erm I forgot to post the link I was reviving the thread for.

http://www.mangalmedia.net/english//is-genocide-denial-anti-imperialist-now-how-tankies-are-taking-over-leftbook-and-the-london-student-scene

Later we all go to The Lexington, there’s a pub quiz where the team with the funniest name wins a bag of Doritos. When the names are handed in, the man with the microphone is astounded that 6 out of 10 are called Crimea River. It’s weird and almost as disappointing as the Doritos being fucking Cool Original.

the least interesting part to quote

drag him neech

what did you think of the article, Mark? Have you encountered many tankies in London?
I've never met one irl and have only seen some due to a certain non-ilxor FB friends wall where he argues with them (you know who I mean)

haven't read it yet, the FB extract didn't look very convincing

Maybe I picked the least interesting part too ;)

Also btw I had no idea LJ used to/still is? a trot

not sure he's into reds, but ruthless amoral pols are definitely his thing:p

Has anyone told him?

No need. He knows.

LJ do you still have the trots?