In these troubled times, I do find your brand of haughty 'my dear fellow' realism most comforting. You're always on hand to put us right. Always.
I never said it wasn't a provable fact.
Judging by my comparatively low post count I'm actually not. And it's a bit much when an accusation of always being somewhere comes from the type of poster who, it seems, has to comment on almost any subject going, often with an assumed moral superiority.
I know, I know. In fact if you look at who has posted most on this thread... oh, well I never!
If I have posted most on this thread, which any poster is free to join in on, then it isn't my fault. If I'd posted as much as you in total I'd be wondering where the fuck my life went.
The fucking nerve of you, every other post is you suggesting other posters are naive/pro-Nato/fans of neoliberalism/the war party/unwilling to see fascism at every turn. Gee.
Sure you wonder where your life went anyway
His entire posting history in all his incarnations is a sorry litany of miserabilism
bylinetimes.com
Yeh being as in December wagner was supposed to have rather more than 25000 mercenaries I'm not sure how accurate that article isYet another piece predicting the collapse of the kleptocracy that is the current Russian state. Much as I would love to see it implode i can't but help feel it is wishful thinking. Putin himself may come to an unfortunste (for him) end but replacements, well it could be someone worse:
Prigozhin's Jet Crash and the Collapse of Russia's Mafia State
Yevgeny Prigozhin's reported death shows how President Vladimir Putin's fragile grip on Russia's Mafia state could soon be over
Did you miss the part where I didn't sound convinced by it? 'Wishful thinking' should have been a clue.
TBF that’s because he is banned from the decent main thread for crayoning all over it…
Yet another piece predicting the collapse of the kleptocracy that is the current Russian state. Much as I would love to see it implode i can't but help feel it is wishful thinking. Putin himself may come to an unfortunste (for him) end but replacements, well it could be someone worse:
Prigozhin's Jet Crash and the Collapse of Russia's Mafia State
Yevgeny Prigozhin's reported death shows how President Vladimir Putin's fragile grip on Russia's Mafia state could soon be over
I took your wishful thinking to mean you felt them over optimistic, not that you took their rosy analysis to be founded on bollocks which in the bit about 25k ex-cons was lifted from one of her articles from a month or two back.
Yeah, water, or something, has to find its own level.
I was not aware of the preceding article, but yeah, unfortunately I think it's bollocks without even being aware of that. There isn't even a remotely credible alternative in the wings. The only vaguely credible opposition figure is Navalny and he has really questionable nationalistic leanings and is, in any case in prison. So if Putin is ousted or assassinated it's likely to be more of the same but quite possibly worse.
A nerd writes: Which few Marxists realize wasn't a proper representation of his views. He wrote it (The Preface) for the Prussian censor in an unsuccessful effort to have his works published there. The idea that superstructure (ideas, politics, art, law) are merely determined by the economy is contradicted a) in other parts of his work (like The Communist Manifesto, Capital vol. 1) and b) in his own political activism.
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact...
How will we ever know?
He was safer in disguise than he was in the skies. RIP.
Even his mum wouldn't recognise him now.
It might be a bad idea to assert the determining role of the economic base as a dogmatic last word in analysis, but it's not a bad place to start such an analysis.
