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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 10:02:15 AM   
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What I say about Blair is that he got the Labour part elected, if they return to the ideas of Wedgie Benn and Arthur Scargell they will disappear down the plughole again.


When has either Tony Benn's or Arthur Scargill's views ever got an unvbiased hearing in the press? If you had spoken personally to both of them you would have a completely different view of what they stood for. As for the establishment's and their servant media's efforts at character assassination of Arthur Scargill, they never did apologize to him for all the lies they spread about him. Every lie was rebutted and proved a lie. The people of Chesterfield loved Tony Benn when he was their MP and he refused to speak through the media but directly to the people themselves. OK, The leftwing half of Chesterfield.

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An odd paradox about Left Wing intellectuals ,who usually are trendy and PC libertarian  ,is that they just dont seem to grasp how authoritarian ,to the point of Fascist, are many in the Working Class.


I've got to admit their is a trend of authoritarianism in the working class, mainly down to crap schools and a sense the world is against them. However, there is a trend of enlightenment in the workingclass too.

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The rise in Welfare Expenditure has not been associated with a rise in worker contentment, rather the opposite, which the trendies put down to the stresses and srains of having to make a living.
Those estates at which most welfare payment is directed are those that experience the most crime and general nihilist behaviour.



The welfare expenditure has risen and not delivered because of the government trying to impose market forces on what is not a market but a provision and so much money has been wasted on middleclass managers number crunching, trying to prove the system is doing what it can't do because so much is being wasted on trying to, prove it is doing what it can't do.

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Both WB and AS are unreconstructed Socialists who advocate Workers Paradises and state control of everything fot the good, as they see it ,of all but in practice turn out to be good for bugga all.


Actually seeks, what you think they stood for is what the rightwing media says they stood for. If you had taken the time to actually find out what their views were you would find out they were probably not what you think are. Though Arthur Scargill was right in saying you can't make deals with tories because they are fundementally dishonest and will shaft the working class who support them and they did, the democratic mineworkers really did well out of betraying their own and thinking they could make a deal with fucking tory bastards. (sorry my true colours coming out there.)

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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 11:51:54 AM   
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unreconstructed Socialists...........Workers Paradises..........state control of everything...........Left Wing intellectuals......trendy and PC libertarian.......authoritarian ,to the point of Fascist, are many in the Working Class.......The rise in Welfare Expenditure...............Those estates at which most welfare payment is directed are those that experience the most crime and general nihilist behaviour.


I'm curious. You always attack, and most of it is ill-conceived and often derogatory, but you rarely nail your own colours to the mast. Your voting patterns over the last 10 years?


A valid criticism NG, ill conceived excepted,  and the reason is this, I have come to realise, as I expect you will in time, that there are no "ologys" or "isms" that will bring about the perfect human society so clearly outlined in the minds eye of many many thinkers. In fact I believe the perfect society is no more than a wish filled fantasy. when the group psychology of humans is observed and accurately interpreted.

For example Working Class people have suffered horribly in the past in Europe and the USA and are still suffering in many parts of the world today. The solutions were gradualist NOT revolutionary. Where revolutions occured frequently they devoured their own and new levels of Terror and suffering followed. The USSR is a perfect example. France, in the short term. Since you have a good level of Historical knowledged no doubt you will say so if I am wrong.

Since we are so far off topic maybe we had better let it go ?

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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 12:38:34 PM   
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Since we are so far off topic maybe we had better let it go ?


dunno.  all threads shift, and I think this one about the protests has run it's course.

I hereby officially claim a change of topic! (since I'm the OP, I can do that, can't I?)

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For example Working Class people have suffered horribly in the past in Europe and the USA and are still suffering in many parts of the world today. The solutions were gradualist NOT revolutionary. Where revolutions occured frequently they devoured their own and new levels of Terror and suffering followed. The USSR is a perfect example. France, in the short term. Since you have a good level of Historical knowledged no doubt you will say so if I am wrong.


Very interesting and astute observation, seeks.

I'd change it a little, however.

I think that gradualism can work.  Sometimes, under certain conditions.  I do think that revolution will almost always fail (although not always).

I think the best dynamic is when there is the possibility of revolt, or at least the fear of "revolt" but not actually one.

People and institutions rarely change without strong reasons.  If the power structure believes that there is no likelihood of "revolt" (however you wish to define it), then they have little reason to change the system, or to give up power.

So, a synthesis of your comments is more accurate I think.  The revolutionaries have their place.  You just don't want them to succeed in their revolution.

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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 12:48:49 PM   
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People and institutions rarely change without strong reasons.  If the power structure believes that there is no likelihood of "revolt" (however you wish to define it), then they have little reason to change the system, or to give up power.



True, when Winston Churchill introduced unemployment benefit, he said 12 shillings and sixpence a week is cheap at the price to stop a revolution.

When he was born I still think his mother should have put a shotgun down his throat and pulled both barrels.

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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 12:55:42 PM   
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Give Meatcleaver a Cigar for illustrating the REAL reason Welfare is NEVER going to go away.

People with Cable TV and DVD players just won't riot.



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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 1:02:01 PM   
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True, when Winston Churchill introduced unemployment benefit, he said 12 shillings and sixpence a week is cheap at the price to stop a revolution.


Damn!  Red letter day!  Me and meat agree about something! 

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When he was born I still think his mother should have put a shotgun down his throat and pulled both barrels.


But ... still not everything. 

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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 1:10:26 PM   
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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave
unreconstructed Socialists...........Workers Paradises..........state control of everything...........Left Wing intellectuals......trendy and PC libertarian.......authoritarian ,to the point of Fascist, are many in the Working Class.......The rise in Welfare Expenditure...............Those estates at which most welfare payment is directed are those that experience the most crime and general nihilist behaviour.


I'm curious. You always attack, and most of it is ill-conceived and often derogatory, but you rarely nail your own colours to the mast. Your voting patterns over the last 10 years?


A valid criticism NG, ill conceived excepted,  and the reason is this, I have come to realise, as I expect you will in time, that there are no "ologys" or "isms" that will bring about the perfect human society so clearly outlined in the minds eye of many many thinkers. In fact I believe the perfect society is no more than a wish filled fantasy. when the group psychology of humans is observed and accurately interpreted.

For example Working Class people have suffered horribly in the past in Europe and the USA and are still suffering in many parts of the world today. The solutions were gradualist NOT revolutionary. Where revolutions occured frequently they devoured their own and new levels of Terror and suffering followed. The USSR is a perfect example. France, in the short term. Since you have a good level of Historical knowledged no doubt you will say so if I am wrong.

Since we are so far off topic maybe we had better let it go ?


Playing your cards a bit close to your chest ain't yer, Seeks.......your voting pattern over the last 10/15 years?

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RE: Report on the Anti-War Protest this weekend ... - 3/19/2007 4:10:34 PM   
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You called it, FB!  The Romans had the "bread and circuses"
policy to quell the slave riots and control the working classes.


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Give Meatcleaver a Cigar for illustrating the REAL reason Welfare is NEVER going to go away.

People with Cable TV and DVD players just won't riot.




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