The day that made Britain the GREATEST. 30/01/1649.

[Humberto]

Yeah ok.

 

[Humberto]

 

[Celyn]

Okay, heads up. I'm a Manchester City fan, doesn't mean I cant appreciate the enemy United and Liverpool.

Likewise, I'm an anticapitalist, but when it comes to imperialism and the spreading of the capitalist mode of production, who has been a bigger player than Britain?

You are a football person? Why is other team enemy?

Oh, and Britain has done many Bad Things.

I had never noticed that until now. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

 

[Celyn]

A Choppin' for Charlie the Third.

" Charlie the Third will no be needed. ."

 

[Celyn]

and celebrating social revolution? I can understand why the capitalists wouldn't want to.

"the end of the divine right of kings -" bingo. Created the paradigm for bourgeois revolutions?

You are sort of amusing. But not much.

 

[JimW]

Used as a citation for the Scots word "lith" in a phrase I've always remembered for some reason "He [Cromwell] gart kings ken that they had a lith in their neck." Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Lith n.1, v.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

couldn't agree more mate. Couldn't agree more. However, it's been 370 years and the capitalist bastards are still in power. So when it comes to imperialism and the spreading of the capitalist mode of production, who has been a bigger player than Britain?

Well yeah it's an interesting period but there is a fine line between dour Marxist progress and cheerleading the worst excesses of imperialism cos it's better than feudalism. Or something.

 

[Pickman's model]

" Charlie the Third will no be needed. ."

we have enough third-rate charlies

 

[Pickman's model]

The day that made Britain the GREATEST. 30/01/1649.

On 30 January 2019 it will be the 370th anniversary of the greatest day in British history. It should be a day of global celebration, and national pride, but will undoubtably go without mention in the world's media.
That day would turn Britain from an insignificant backwater, to an empire upon which the sun would never set. A 282 year period of world domination. Despite the achievements of Dutch (merchant capitalism), French, Spanish et cetera empires, and even the successful rebellion by the Johnny upstarts of America, NONE would EVER emulate the significance to humanity that Britain achieved. For the Empire however great, was a byproduct of something far more revolutionary.
The axe that fell 30/01/1649 went through more than a neck, it went through the umbilical cord of a new form of society. A society that every country in the world had to emulate, or be raped by.
As the 1st, as the leader, Britain globalised the "British social revolution" and transformed human society on the entire planet. The weakest stood no chance, but even the mightiest, China, fell to the game changer.
To draw an analogy, this game changer is similar to a sports coach changing the tactic in a sport, which just blows away the other competitors. Similarly in Britain, the change in tactics, the change in the way various groups in society interacted with each other, in order to produce/manufacture, was revolutionised.
This NEW society was where the free waged labourer's, were employed by capitalist's, who competed with each other for market share. This competition led to constant innovation in laboursaving techniques, innovation in cost savings, and so laid the basis of the modern economies of today.
On 30 January 1649 Charles I monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland was executed. It's hard to believe chopping off one man's head could change the entire world. But it did. It is the day that made Britain the greatest transformer of human society.

A very tiny synopsis of a massive debate obviously. But a fair assessment?

how surprising that on 29/1/1649 none of this existed but lo and behold as soon as the axe swung down on whitehall on 30/1/1649 auld relationships were sundered and new ones formed in an effortless immediate transition to capitalism and now auld tt has spoken no more need ever be heard of that tedious brenner debate

 

[Sprocket.]

No one puts Brenner in a corner.

 

[DotCommunist]

I imagine the restoration was really depressing for non royalists.

 

[Pickman's model]

I imagine the restoration was really depressing for non royalists.

not to mention for john rivet, who could no longer sell pieces of metal affecting to be from the equestrian statue of charles i now in trafalgar square

'curiosities of london' by john timbs, p.691

 

[Artaxerxes]

Jesus didn't cut anyone's head off ya mappet

And look what happened to him!

Few chopped heads and he'd have been one putting folks on the cross.

 

[Poi E]

"Forgive, but never forget."

 

[Pickman's model]

"Forgive, but never forget."

easier to forgive once you've lopped a head off

 

[Sprocket.]

‘Careful with that axe Jesus!’

 

[editor]

Okay, heads up. I'm a Manchester City fan, doesn't mean I cant appreciate the enemy United and Liverpool.

Likewise, I'm an anticapitalist, but when it comes to imperialism and the spreading of the capitalist mode of production, who has been a bigger player than Britain?

Anti-capitalist supporting one of the wealthiest clubs on the planet? Nice.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anti-capitalist supporting one of the wealthiest clubs on the planet? Nice.

he's as much an anti-capitalist as i am a hurling champion

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It’s possible to be anti-capitalist and appreciate the amazing things that hat have been achieved under the capitalist mode of production.

 

[Sprocket.]

Having spent many hours studying
The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller, only the translation. I think this along with the European Reformation may have more effect than some prancing monarch having a very close shave one January morn on the flourish of Capital and free trade?

 

[TruXta]

It’s possible to be anti-capitalist and appreciate the amazing things that hat have been achieved under the capitalist mode of production.

Now you're telling me

 

[Sprocket.]

Pickman’s unattainable trophy.

he's as much an anti-capitalist as i am a hurling champion

 

[Celyn]

Having spent many hours studying
The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller, only the translation. I think this along with the European Reformation may have more effect than some prancing monarch having a very close shave one January morn on the flourish of Capital and free trade?

Sheer barberism, I say.

 

[Sprocket.]

Sheer barberism, I say.

I agree, though ultimately the horrors of the war caused by dogmatic religious beliefs repulsed the citizens of Europe to realise they had more in common with each other and allowed political outcomes rather than religious divisions.

 

[Celyn]

It’s possible to be anti-capitalist and appreciate the amazing things that hat have been achieved under the capitalist mode of production.

Yes. Learning how to make fire, use tools, collectively hunt down and scoff the scary mammoth or whatever, use wheel, make little boats, and so on. But capitalist mode of production did bring us the pot noodle.

 

[Sprocket.]

Yes. Learning how to make fire, use tools, collectively hunt down and scoff the scary mammoth or whatever, use wheel, make little boats, and so on. But capitalist mode of production did bring us the pot noodle.

Yes and kept me a wage slave for 45 years!

 

[Celyn]

I agree, though ultimately the horrors of the war caused by dogmatic religious beliefs repulsed the citizens of Europe to realise they had more in common with each other and allowed political outcomes rather than religious divisions.

I do not like you now, @Sprocket! You chose to ignore my razor-sharp wit re close shave and "barber"ism. This means war, Sir! (Or Madam)

(departs singing "Freude, schone Gotterfunken. .."

 

[Sprocket.]

I do not like you now, @Sprocket! You chose to ignore my razor-sharp wit re close shave and "barber"ism. This means war, Sir! (Or Madam)

This is what happens, reading forums on phone, without much needed reading glasses, whilst washing pots, listening to Magic Soul, singing along to Barry White and typing one handed from two feet away and ushering dogs out.
Sorry, I missed your excellent quip and assure you it wasn’t a chronic attack of tonsurephobia!

ETA: Curtis Mayfield at the moment.

 

[Pickman's model]

I do not like you now, @Sprocket! You chose to ignore my razor-sharp wit re close shave and "barber"ism. This means war, Sir! (Or Madam)

(departs singing "Freude, schone Gotterfunken. .."

Reminded of ruddy yurts singing 'Freud's a gutterfucker' as he reeled down shaftesbury avenue 30 years ago today after a skinful at the intrepid fox

 

[Pickman's model]

existentialist Libertad ^^