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29 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
the soft/soc dem/Labour watcher left rn and probably forever
I don't how people can possibly be obsessed with this still. They don't care about elections, they don't care about the conditions of anyone other than themselves and they don't want any of you in their party. You all know this, yet you remain hitched to obsolescence.
Obsessing over every detail of Keir Starmer's road to nothing and insisting that Corbyn's road to nothing would have mattered is, at this point, a cultural fetish covering for having no strategy imo.
And you can puff yourself up as much as you want about how good Corbyn's mild social democracy was, the fact is it lost, this is the end of the road, and the end of the road led to nothing. Alt-history is for comic books, not politics.

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30 Sep
Brexit isn't original sin. HGV drivers are definitely one reason why shortages are hitting Britain hard, but gas prices across *all of Europe* have risen 500% this year. The crisis is made more acute by Britain's parasitism, and that, in turn, has been given a catalyst by Brexit.
It's pure liberal nonsense that the economy was a-okay, just fine, then Brexit happened.
Britain exported 560% of its GDP in capital investments abroad in 2015. If you have an economy like that, then any shock, anywhere in the world, is gonna make itself known.
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29 Sep
I am all for logging off but the "get some air" or "touch grass" memes will never not simply be hysterical to me because they don't account for the fact that we can be online outside anywhere and have been able to do that for over a decade.
You all sound like jaded parents who just want the kids to go out so they can have sex circa 2002
Aside: I wonder how many middle-aged sex lives Runescape and Neopets ruined in the early 2000s
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28 Sep
I’ve been doing a lot of reading around fascism and modes of production in decay for this year’s @ProlekultFilms and I’m increasingly unconvinced that the term fascism has any use when considered as an abstract force.
The dominant modern reading of the 1930s communist analysis of fascism is really illustrative in this way. Rajani Palme Dutt puts forward the clearest articulation in his wonderful book “Fascism and Social Revolution“.
He argues that fascism is capitalism in decay (something that gets attributed to Lenin a lot but makes no sense to attribute to him if you apply a modicum of histriography). In the modern frame, this gets read as “capitalism in decay gives rise to fascism as a social force”.
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28 Sep
An organisational realisation of capitalism's tendency toward total monopoly. The choice is between a bourgeois state propping up capital accumulation until it defaults and falls into terminal decline, or a proletarian state, with mass democracy over a fully nationalised economy.
There is no option other than central planning and increasing reliance on the state for capitalism. Capital is already subsidised via direct payment, contract, and tax cuts to such an extent that masses of the economy would collapse without these allowances.
In other words: the first question is, in the most concrete terms history has yet allowed, who owns the state.
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3 Apr
Corbyn and all your faves remained members of the Labour Party through this, and still remain members now, as Labour acquiesces to open capitalist dictatorship. Fuck em.
He’ll asphyxiate this just as he asphyxiated the anti-austerity movement, just as he chose co-operation with the bourgeois state over the proletarian movement at every serious test of his integrity. Letting these people lead, again, points to defeat, again.
Rajani Palme Dutt: revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/DuttFa…
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2 Apr
Nord Stream 2 reports harrassment from military and civilian ships and vessels as the pipeline nears completion, including an "unidentified submarine". Things are really, really heating up. reuters.com/article/us-nor…
Nord Stream 2 is something which is quite crucial to understanding Ukraine rn I think, as it's a gas pipeline between Russia na d Germany specifically which cuts out gas transit through Ukraine.
Russian ships defending Nord Stream 2 now. This is getting real wild.
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