In what way is there hyperbole and arrogance?
I've tried to be objective.
I see no evidence of you doing the same.
You seem to be reacting rather than considering.
E.g your reaction to the words
National "Socialism"
Have you considered why the Nazis called themselves that?
Lexiteers, if you have been following their arguments, have accused the EU of being capitalists. The UK isn't?
question: Then what's the difference?
lexiteers: "In Brexit UK
we'd be the boss".
Then why didn't we have "socialism" before we went into the EU?
I put socialism in inverted commas for excellent reasons.
Didn't you know that Blair is a socialist?
He has said so several times and each time the audience laughed, including at a conference of the International Socialists.
It is
normal for socialdemocratic parties to be called socialist.
It is often there right in the name
Socialist Party
George Galloway now claims to be a Marxist-Leninist!
Yoiu have to define your terms, becuase the terms are deliberately misused.
E.g. communism.
The USSR wasa socialist country.
It was not a communist country.
One could argue that "communist country" is an oxymoron.
Are the Lexiteers nationalist? Yes.
Are they socialist? No.
What's the problem?
Prior to getting into government, Blairism was described, by supporters, here on the web as being national and socialists.
It was also described as the "Third Way" - the term used, among other terms, by Mussolini to describe his political philosophy.
Some people say that the USSR was not democratic, whereas the west is democratic.
In fact, on a daily basis, the USSR was democratic whereas we experience fascism on a daily basis.
The USSR had workers councils in which the workers would discuss the problems and ideas and then vote on them.
In the west, the boss is the boss - the work place is private property.
Indeed, in a monarchy, the country is private property.
Lee Harvey Oswald said the thing that annoyed him when working in the USSR was the workers councils becuase he, as an "american" worker liked to go home as quick as possible when the work was finished....
Sorry that inverted commas annoy. You think, no doubt, that it is arrogance.
It could, of course, be just pointing that words are deliberatly used with different meanings.
Above, Oswald was not referring to Argentinian or Canadian workers....
The importance of the media in control the narrative and the meaning and associations of words.
News is not meant to inform you, but to form opinions.
So we must be clear about how we use words, and not sink into "you know what I mean" or that the dictionaries define words.
Workers have a special significance in socialism because of their significance in the economy of creating wealth.
Nothing has changed there but the older, formerly advanced, nations have changed.
The UK is not the workshop of the world. Indeed it started declining as soon as the US, Germany and others became industry developed.
The working population of the UK (and elsewhere) is much more vulnerable.
Blair said it is a service economy. A vague term. Others talk about a "post industrial" economy - which is not correct. It is is simply an economy which is not dominated by industrial output. There are countries which never had a dominantly industrial economy, but are rich and developed for other reasons, e.g. oil.
The working population is becoming one of office workers and servants.
IBM in the late 1970s had an advertisment (at least in Germany) which said that at least one job will not be replaced by computers - that of a cook in the canteen kitchen.
Well... in any case the future does not look good in a non-socialist society.
One of the key points of socialism was rational production - not duplication or built in obsolescence - and automation.
In the USSR the working hours steadily decreased.
Production was important, but not profitability because there were no shareholders awaiting their dividends.
Here another word needs to be defined "efficiency": in the west it means cutting costs to increase profits for the shareholders - this includes exporting the costs into society.
In socialism, "efficiency" would mean eliminating material waste and shortening the worklng hours for the workers.
It is other who seems to be arrogant and lack safe awareness.
Who like throwing stones.
Who don't seem to care.
Professor Pangloss's
Just internet chat, right?
As Chomsky points out.
It causes impotence because it works as a psychotherapy.
(Not his words and I don't agree with his aims, which are not to empower, but also to act as psychotherapy)
At least Bernard Cribben's guy in the bowler hat seemed to be offering constructive criticism.
Cheers - SysOut
why bother queuing when Phillip Scofield is there to show you what the coffin looks like (and if you're lucky pay your energy bills)
