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[ViolentPanda]

I'm not so sure about the potato now you mention it. It was after all a decadent foreign tuber introduced by the British aristocracy in it's proto-imperialist stage of development which replaced the superior taproots and rhizomatic crops native to these isles, in particular the Turnip. The popularity of the Potato in Britain's working class is testament to the snivelling deferential nature of the inhabitants of these servile isles, who were prepared to discard the good honest Turnip so they could imitate the bourgeois eating habits of their oppressors.

Reinstate the rutabaga!!!

 

[equationgirl]

We Need The Swede

 

[weepiper]

I'm not so sure about the potato now you mention it. It was after all a decadent foreign tuber introduced by the British aristocracy in it's proto-imperialist stage of development which replaced the superior taproots and rhizomatic crops native to these isles, in particular the Turnip. The popularity of the Potato in Britain's working class is testament to the snivelling deferential nature of the inhabitants of these servile isles, who were prepared to discard the good honest Turnip so they could imitate the bourgeois eating habits of their oppressors.

The Turnip has a special place in the Workers' heart. For after all, they Could Not Pull The Great Big Enormous Turnip Up until they united and their individual strength became That Of The Many, exploding the Workers' Bomb (or 'Great Big Enormous Turnip') in a glorious shower of unwasted labours (or 'earth')

 

[rekil]

Can whoever is tweeting at the margaret lady give it a rest please. It is not the way. Grans are our friends.

 

[DotCommunist]

Andrew Marr, pshaw, PD can never know fame untill Andrew Niel has said something about the Party while doing his creepy rapists grin

 

[equationgirl]

Perhaps a PD piece on the Great Vegetables of the Masses?

Gardens everywhere to grow food to fuel the workers?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I think that Delroy Booth is mistaken in his disapproval of the potato. The fact of it not being a native vegetable is merely a Nationalist position. Our Imperial masters certainly stole this vegetable from a foreign land and a foreign proletariat. But this is no reason not to appropriate their spoils of Imperialism and put them into the hands and mouths of our proletariat. There are no borders in the Workers Struggle. Our South American comrades are part of the Revolution as are all comrades throughout the planet.

Delroy, you are giving credence to a Stalinist position. You may benefit from a Workers Education session which is offered free of charge from 7:00 am tomorrow morning. A courtesy car will convey you to the venue without cost to you. This is a generous free offer which you may ignore on payment of a £300 voluntary contribution to the bomb fund. Proletarianism in one country is not possible.

 

[revol68]

Precisely, the potato in all its contradictions embodies all the material conditions to blow the foundations of capitalism sky high. The reactionary reverence of the turnip by some sections of the "socialist" body is nothing more than the socialism of fools and should be consigned to the dustbin of history, let the dead plough their own root vegetables.

 

[Delroy Booth]

Delroy, you are giving credence to a Stalinist position.

Yes. And?

Precisely, the potato in all its contradictions embodies all the material conditions to blow the foundations of capitalism sky high. The reactionary reverence of the turnip by some sections of the "socialist" body is nothing more than the socialism of fools and should be consigned to the dustbin of history, let the dead plough their own root vegetables.

Would this "Socialist Body" be a body without organs perchance?

It's so sad to see the further degeneration of Proletarian Democracy with it's craven reverence of the spoils of imperialistic punder, the Potato. The potato needs to be discarded to the compost heap of history.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Ironically the Swede which is really a Swedish turnip was introduced to Britain by William Cobbett to enable crop rotation and preserve the condition of the soil. He, a complex character and initially a Conservative proved later to be a real radical and fighter for democracy and someone we can admire despite his tendency to nationalism, probably inspired by a sentimental attachment to the English rural environment. In his books "Rural Rides" he describes the English rural and agricultural environment, geographically and politically. He describes London as The Great Wen.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Yes. And?



Would this "Socialist Body" be a body without organs perchance?

It's so sad to see the further degeneration of Proletarian Democracy with it's craven reverence of the spoils of imperialistic punder, the Potato. The potato needs to be discarded to the compost heap of history.

Get into the car quietly tomorrow Delroy and you need fear nothing. At lunchtime you will be free to eat chips, mashed potato, Jacket potato, pasta or bread. Your choice will be monitored. Your next of kin and children will be looked after if there should be an accident of any kind.

Yours Fraternally
The Proletariat.

 

[revol68]

Ironically the Swede which is really a Swedish turnip was introduced to Britain by William Cobbet to enable crop rotation and preserve the condition of the soil. He, a complex character and initially a Conservative proved later to be a real radical and fighter for democracy and someone we can admire despite his tendency to nationalism, probably inspired by a sentimental attachment to the English rural environment. In his books "Rural Rides" he describes the English rural and agricultural environment, geographically and politically. He describes London as The Great Wen.

Whilst we may admire him within the limited parameters of his epoch, to do so from the elevated position of true scientific socialism is little more than to pander to sentimentality. Him, his ideas and the turnips that fundamentally sustained them must leave the stage of history, even if they do threaten to blast the world to ruins before doing so.

I trust this curtsey to centrism is little more than a temporary aberration of your otherwise solidly proletarian politics.

 

[revol68]

A typical member of the Turnip Tendency,

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Whilst we may admire him within the limited parameters of his epoch, to do so from the elevated position of true scientific socialism is little more than to pander to sentimentality. Him, his ideas and the turnips that fundamentally sustained them must leave the stage of history, even if they do threaten to blast the world to ruins before doing so.

I trust this curtsey to centrism is little more than a temporary aberration of your otherwise solidly proletarian politics.

Whilst the turnip may reduce in importance in the future, the role of root vegetables may be crucial to our survival. They are humble plants but hardy and require a great effort to dig up especially in the North European winter, not at all like plucking low hanging fruit from an overhead bush. The beet for example provides nourishment in the form of borscht soup in many countries where it grows. Also as sugar beet it enables us to make sugar without becoming dependent on Colonial Imperialists cane sugar that still impoverishes the workers in that economic system. This unlike the potato still is grown in the subjugated colonies where it originated.

 

[revol68]

Whilst the turnip may reduce in importance in the future, the role of root vegetables may be crucial to our survival. They are humble plants but hardy and require a great effort to dig up especially in the North European winter, not at all like plucking low hanging fruit from an overhead bush. The beet for example provides nourishment in the form of borscht soup in many countries where it grows. Also as sugar beet it enables us to make sugar without becoming dependent on Colonial Imperialists cane sugar that still impoverishes the workers in that economic system. This unlike the potato still is grown in the subjugated colonies where it originated.

Your words condemn you Stalinist pig!

 

[Delroy Booth]

What's wrong with Stalin?

Good honest guy imo

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Your words condemn you Stalinist pig!

Ah comrade you mistake geographical references for political allegiance. Such is the risk of the tyro in these matters. The Man of Steel himself was rusty at his core and so was defeated. Let this also be an answer to Delroy The Deluded.

 

[revol68]

Ah comrade you mistake geographical references for political allegiance. Such is the risk of the tyro in these matters.

It is your inability to grasp capital as a truly global system that leads you astray into the gutter of anti imperialism and the petite bourgeois parasites who so brazenly breed in its squalor.

PD-Councilist Tendency

 

[barney_pig]

Just as comrade Posadas came from south America to nourish the proletarian consciousness, so too did the tuber provide sustenance for the western proletariat. Deep fried in the class struggle, it won't be the bourgeoisie that gets the chips!

 

[Pickman's model]

Just as comrade Posadas came from south America to nourish the proletarian consciousness, so too did the tuber provide sustenance for the western proletariat. Deep fried in the class struggle, it won't be the bourgeoisie that gets the chips!

It'll be frittered away

 

[BigTom]

Can I just say that the headline for the booing piece is fantastic, well done whoever though of that.. "the revolution clears its throat"

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Gary Lineker - Behold your executioners.

The potato was and remains an attack on the proletariat; initially planned by bourgeois physician Antoine-Augustin de Parmentier and wielded by the deservedly doomed King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.

Gary Lineker, the paid toady of present day purveyors of filth Walkers, must be held to account. PD calls for a picket of Match of the Day and the reinstatement of the turnip as the workers' vegetable.

Proletarian Democracy - Real Food Faction (PDRFF)

 

[rekil]

http://www.taytocrisps.ie/park/

Victory to the semi-autonomous PD Vegaktionkommando who in the early hours of this morning infiltrated this grotesque alcazar of spud-imperialism and performed several acts of sabotage including

• the spraying of pro-turnip graffiti in a number of locations
• tying up the swings in the 'Pow Wow Playground'
• slightly damaging the (disappointing tbh) 'Tayto Twister' thing
• and so on

 

[ska invita]

this is good enough a reason for a split as any

 

[Louis MacNeice]

this is good enough a reason for a split as any

I think you mean purge don't you?

Louis MacNeice

 

[frogwoman]

The turnip is the ultimate symbol of a backward consciousness, of the lumpenproletariat and the peasant classes of the 18th and 19th centuries, who lacked even the most elementary concepts of class struggle. As Marxists we must strive to move forward to revolution, not go backwards to some hallowed depiction of a workerist fantasy. At the same time we must never capitulate to the imperialism personified in the so-called potato. There are only two root vegetables acceptable to the party of the working class - the beetroot and the carrot. As the beetroot turns our urine red when eaten, so our task must be to permeate every inch of our bodies with a Marxist commitment to international revolution. As the carrot helps us to see in the dark, so our Marxist analysis shines a light on the ultra-left swamp which aims to blacken our thinking.

 

[butchersapron]

The pickled egg is glorious proletarian food that stands proud alongside its comrades the potato and the salt of the earth. No need of revisionist adulterated crisps defiled with chemical false flavours of deceipt.

Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula.

 

[chilango]

The potato is to native Americans what the workers' bomb is to the proletariat.

 

[DotCommunist]

Parsnip crisps. Endorsed by a hitlerite.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

The turnip is the ultimate symbol of a backward consciousness, of the lumpenproletariat and the peasant classes of the 18th and 19th centuries, who lacked even the most elementary concepts of class struggle. As Marxists we must strive to move forward to revolution, not go backwards to some hallowed depiction of a workerist fantasy. At the same time we must never capitulate to the imperialism personified in the so-called potato. There are only two root vegetables acceptable to the party of the working class - the beetroot and the carrot. As the beetroot turns our urine red when eaten, so our task must be to permeate every inch of our bodies with a Marxist commitment to international revolution. As the carrot helps us to see in the dark, so our Marxist analysis shines a light on the ultra-left swamp which aims to blacken our thinking.

The carrot!

The bloody carrot!

Not only are you attempting to valorise a veg that imperial Rome used as a tool for the systematic rape of conquered populations (a carrot broth was believed to hold aphrodisiac properties), you are also buying into the latter day imperialists' war time prattle, designed to get children to eat up their rationed dinners.

This is exactly the sort of degenerate foolishness that comrades fall into, when they attempt to impose their abstracted political schemas onto the red in tooth and claw, class war, historical reality of horticulture.

Louis MacNeice