The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
No problem with bookstalls here
I find this quite amusing
I'll grant you that.No need to cwi over spilt milk... no sorry, that's the other lot, just a poor imtation of a proper pun.
I wood've made a better one if I could.I'll grant you that.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
I'll Grant you that.I wood've made a better one if I could.
At least the "heretofore" is a cod attempt at Marx's style, I suppose.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
Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.www.marxist.com
The Teddy boys rule.No need to cwi over spilt milk... no sorry, that's the other lot, just a poor imtation of a proper pun.
I shall use the word 'heretofore' henceforth.At least the "heretofore" is a cod attempt at Marx's style, I suppose.
Fair play to him, I say: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
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".
The Spartans on the sea-wet rocks sat down and combed their hair.Heretofore comrade, heretofore.
And began to admire the Foot of the Cliff..The Spartans on the sea-wet rocks sat down and combed their hair.
They took some honey, and plenty of money,The Spartans on the sea-wet rocks sat down and combed their hair.
There was an old person of BazingThey 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?
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?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
Well I'm glad you asked . . .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?
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