Who the f*ck are Socialist Appeal?

[The39thStep]

No problem with bookstalls here

 

[Serge Forward]

Spotted in Calgary today.



Someone isn't keen.

 

[The39thStep]

Scandinavian section

 

[Dom Traynor]

Any crisis is an opportunity

 

[Flavour]

I find this quite amusing

 

[imposs1904]

I find this quite amusing

I don't see the appeal myself.

 

[hitmouse]

No need to cwi over spilt milk... no sorry, that's the other lot, just a poor imtation of a proper pun.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

No need to cwi over spilt milk... no sorry, that's the other lot, just a poor imtation of a proper pun.

I'll grant you that.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[hitmouse]

I'll grant you that.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

I wood've made a better one if I could.

 

[Serge Forward]

I wood've made a better one if I could.

I'll Grant you that.

Crap. I've just noticed Louis MacNeice's post. Late again

 

[ska invita]

It was funnier the second time tbf : thumbs:

 

[Flavour]

I really thought this might be an April fools thing but apparently not

 

[The39thStep]

Dunno if Alan Woods mistook the cognac for mescal but his New Year message is a bit er, how do say , strange.

A world without problems: Alan Woods’ New Year message 2024 | World

Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.

www.marxist.com

 

[JimW]

Dunno if Alan Woods mistook the cognac for mescal but his New Year message is a bit er, how do say , strange.

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A world without problems: Alan Woods’ New Year message 2024 | World

Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.

www.marxist.com

At least the "heretofore" is a cod attempt at Marx's style, I suppose.

 

[PTK]

No need to cwi over spilt milk... no sorry, that's the other lot, just a poor imtation of a proper pun.

The Teddy boys rule.
The other lot can Taffe off. as far as I am concerned.

 

[Chilli.s]

Socialist Apparel, thats where Keeth gets his man at c n a suits from

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

At least the "heretofore" is a cod attempt at Marx's style, I suppose.

I shall use the word 'heretofore' henceforth.

 

[Idris2002]

Dunno if Alan Woods mistook the cognac for mescal but his New Year message is a bit er, how do say , strange.

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A world without problems: Alan Woods’ New Year message 2024 | World

Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.

www.marxist.com

Fair play to him, I say:

For the middle-class academic, however, words are everything. They are the media in which he or she lives, the air that they breathe, and, last but not least, the tickets to a comfortable existence. Therefore, the endeavour to improve society is reduced in their simple minds to one thing alone: changing words.

It never occurs to them that by changing a word, one does not alter the existing conditions in the slightest degree. Worse still, to the degree that this nonsense succeeds in affecting the thinking of people, it inevitably results in reducing them to the level of imbeciles (in this context, the search for a politically correct alternative is quite superfluous).

"O Priestess what you cry is clear, and sound good sense I think it.
But let the screaming echoes rest and froth your mouth no more.
'tis better boose to drink than brine, but he that drowns must drink it
And O my lass the news is news that men have heard before".

 

[The39thStep]

Fair play to him, I say:

For the middle-class academic, however, words are everything. They are the media in which he or she lives, the air that they breathe, and, last but not least, the tickets to a comfortable existence. Therefore, the endeavour to improve society is reduced in their simple minds to one thing alone: changing words.

It never occurs to them that by changing a word, one does not alter the existing conditions in the slightest degree. Worse still, to the degree that this nonsense succeeds in affecting the thinking of people, it inevitably results in reducing them to the level of imbeciles (in this context, the search for a politically correct alternative is quite superfluous).

"O Priestess what you cry is clear, and sound good sense I think it.
But let the screaming echoes rest and froth your mouth no more.
'tis better boose to drink than brine, but he that drowns must drink it
And O my lass the news is news that men have heard before".

Heretofore comrade, heretofore.

 

[Idris2002]

Heretofore comrade, heretofore.

The Spartans on the sea-wet rocks sat down and combed their hair.

 

[redcogs]

The Spartans on the sea-wet rocks sat down and combed their hair.

And began to admire the Foot of the Cliff..

 

[redcogs]

'

 

[Idris2002]

Mind the oranges, Marlon.

 

[hitmouse]

The Spartans on the sea-wet rocks sat down and combed their hair.

They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.


Has anyone ever tried arranging a Woods v Matgamna rap battle?

 

[Idris2002]

They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.


Has anyone ever tried arranging a Woods v Matgamna rap battle?

There was an old person of Bazing
Whose presence of mind was amazing
He purchased a steed
Which he rode at great speed
Away from the people of Bazing.

 

[Flavour]

i expect the new RCP to be a source of great amusement in the new year and beyond -- this alan woods letter is amazing.

i especially love the bit where he talks about how Russia, unlike Israel, really does take measures to reduce/avoid civilian casualties

 

[hitmouse]

i expect the new RCP to be a source of great amusement in the new year and beyond -- this alan woods letter is amazing.

i especially love the bit where he talks about how Russia, unlike Israel, really does take measures to reduce/avoid civilian casualties

Blimey, you have a lot more patience than I do. I'd given up long before that point, but on returning to it, I like the sudden jump from the Littlejohnesque ramblings about "DID YOU KNOW THEY HAVE TO CALL IT SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN VERTICALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE THESE DAYS?" to Ukraine and Gaza. What is it with trot orgs that do longterm entryism into the Labour Party and publishing weird offputting ramblings from their elderly founder figures?

 

[GroovySunday]

I’ve had very posh students trying to palm off their weird and shit rag off on me in town.

What flavour of authoritarian communist are they pretending to be?

Well I'm glad you asked . . .

Coz they're the most middle class loony leftie cunts going

I wonder how much they've raised?

 

[Knotted]

Ted Grant was a bitter old sectarian but at least there was a bit of seriousness to him. When it comes down to it Alan Woods is a bar room bore who has captured Grant's culty following by association. Old man shakes fist at cloud as the new Marxism.

 

[nastyned]

i expect the new RCP to be a source of great amusement in the new year and beyond -- this alan woods letter is amazing.

i especially love the bit where he talks about how Russia, unlike Israel, really does take measures to

So if Socialist Appeal are abandoning the tapeworm tactic to live an independent life outside the Labour Party how are they doing to differ from their Socialist Party ex-comrades?