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Aeolius
Jul 16, 2003

Simon Templeman Fanclub
this is good, though i can't find it on youtube (only a less interesting clip that I initially mistook for this one)

BBC interview with Helen Yaffe on the relationship between Castro & Che, Cuban democracy, etc.: https://www.facebook.com/helen.yaffe.9/posts/1780349142229357

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R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i didn't see the point in answering your question because you'd just dismiss it like you do with everything else. i asked you specifically if parliamentary democracy was the only valid democracy and you said no, yet you appear to reject the notion a country operating with any other system is legitimate

Aeolius posted:

this is good, though i can't find it on youtube (only a less interesting clip that I initially mistook for this one)

BBC interview with Helen Yaffe on the relationship between Castro & Che, Cuban democracy, etc.: https://www.facebook.com/helen.yaffe.9/posts/1780349142229357

yeah this is a really good vid and helen yaffe knows her poo poo

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011
Baloogan if there's one thing I know you learned this year its that

these things can happen quicker than you might think

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Baloogan posted:

all this right wing authortarian nationalism is gonna lead to a world war or something dumber and there isn't even gonna be a comintern, SAD

this is true and very sad though if india goes full kerala or the naxals seize state power and we get to the brink of war i'd expect the socialist or anti-imperialist bloc to rapidly get their poo poo together and ally

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011
The naxals are probably not going to seize power.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

that bit is definitely more of a pipe dream than others, which is already kind of a pipe dream, yeah

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Homework Explainer posted:

yet you appear to reject the notion a country operating with any other system is legitimate

That's purely your interpretation. The onus is on you to substantiate the claim that any significant amount of power actually rests with the people in these unorthodox "democracies" you love so much. Last time you posted a paper going into great detail about how hollow democracy was within the GDR, as if it furthered your own point.

As to Cuba, I've investigated the conditions of their system, and if a one party state, in which that party has exclusive control of the media, in which no one from outside the establishment is permitted to hold or even contest state offices at levels higher than municipal, constitutes a democracy, then congratulations, you have succeeded in rendering the word meaningless.

I suspect you and your lot would have abandoned the whole concept ages ago as a bourgeois affectation, if Lenin et al. hadn't spoken so highly of it, before actually coming to power.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


i like corbyn but i dont see him as a angry revolutionary. hes more radical than bernie in policy but he needs some of that righteous anger and grumpy yelling and calling out the bad dudes that bernie does so well. corbyn seems too polite and nice. maybe thats just a brit thing

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
he needs to stop giving out jam.

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011
This charlie angus guy sounds kinda cool.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

i like corbyn but i dont see him as a angry revolutionary. hes more radical than bernie in policy but he needs some of that righteous anger and grumpy yelling and calling out the bad dudes that bernie does so well. corbyn seems too polite and nice. maybe thats just a brit thing

Corbyn wants to pass a law that grants employees the right to take over any business that either wants to close or move overseas.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

LegoPirateNinja posted:

Corbyn wants to pass a law that grants employees the right to take over any business that either wants to close or move overseas.

https://youtu.be/jUy9_0M3bVk

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

if a one party state, in which that party has exclusive control of the media, in which no one from outside the establishment is permitted to hold or even contest state offices at levels higher than municipal, constitutes a democracy, then congratulations, you have succeeded in rendering the word meaningless.

EXCUSE me but the United States is a republic not a democracy so please gently caress off with this critique

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

That's purely your interpretation. The onus is on you to substantiate the claim that any significant amount of power actually rests with the people in these unorthodox "democracies" you love so much. Last time you posted a paper going into great detail about how hollow democracy was within the GDR, as if it furthered your own point.

As to Cuba, I've investigated the conditions of their system, and if a one party state, in which that party has exclusive control of the media, in which no one from outside the establishment is permitted to hold or even contest state offices at levels higher than municipal, constitutes a democracy, then congratulations, you have succeeded in rendering the word meaningless.

no, i posted a paper specifically for its account of the adoption of the gdr constitution fully aware of its other criticisms and people in whatever thread that was were all "oh my god how stupid." serves me right for assuming people could read sources without looking to score points in an internet forum

your conclusions on cuba show me you have NOT really investigated, so if you'd like i can re-post what i put in the fidel thread or the latin america thread in d&d

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Homework Explainer posted:

why do communists hate democracy

a one-party state is so anti-democratic

*openly prefers every election to be won by democrats*

okay but consider this: while you certainly dont want the state to allow reactionaries to organize and use the democratic process to seize power and reestablish capitalism or otherwise destroy the conditions necessary for democracy and socialism to exist, you might actually want the people to be able to credibly threaten to put another socialist government in place so as to guarantee that there will be consequences if the current government begins to serve the interests of the political class rather than the people

Aeolius
Jul 16, 2003

Simon Templeman Fanclub
Monthly Review published an essay on Cuba in 2010 called "How to Visit a Socialist Country" that y'all should read. It covers a lot of ground, but its final section is particularly noteworthy here because not only does it focus on the democratic process in Cuba, but it even discusses criticisms of it that are far more considered, nuanced, and based on the concrete reality of Cuba than virtually anything else you'll see in the stateside press. Critically, it even takes time at the coda to spell out some "prerequisites for meaningful, revolutionary criticism."

I figured something like this might appeal to TAR in light of his earlier remarks on the importance of "in-depth, subtle, and deeply insightful" criticism, so far absent from his own discourse on Cuba.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

deadgoon posted:

okay but consider this: while you certainly dont want the state to allow reactionaries to organize and use the democratic process to seize power and reestablish capitalism or otherwise destroy the conditions necessary for democracy and socialism to exist, you might actually want the people to be able to credibly threaten to put another socialist government in place so as to guarantee that there will be consequences if the current government begins to serve the interests of the political class rather than the people

i agree. a socialist multi-party state, with fascist or reactionary parties made illegal, would be my preferred system. in the age of imperialist encirclement though i can see why having only one workers' party would be considered a necessary tool to prevent counter-revolution. if we're able to bring an end to the imperialist world-system through socialist revolution in the united states we're looking at a very different planet, one where such a multi-party country would be very possible.

since we already have multi-party capitalist states all over the place it wouldn't be a huge stretch, naturally

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich
I'm going in to interview with the PSL on Wednesday to see how I can help. I expect I'll get along just fine; in real life, socialists tend to be earnest and helpful, unlike Internet tankies, who are tedious and mendacious. I see myself as more of a soc dem, but whatever, nationalize the financial sector, it's not like I actually give a poo poo. I've read a ton of socialist literature, including primary sources. I'm broadly sympathetic to the socialist critique. When someone says "look, forget the worst excesses of the USSR (though keep in mind the good stuff) -- when socialism comes to the US, we'll obviously be able to do everything much, much better," I'm content to roll with that idea.

Then some idiot goes and declares Cuba a democracy. Oh, really. So that's what we're in for, then, when the revolution comes?

Hard. loving. pass.

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

EXCUSE me but the United States is a republic not a democracy so please gently caress off with this critique

These are not and have never been opposing concepts, so unless this is a joke that missed, I don't know what you're trying to say.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

i like corbyn but i dont see him as a angry revolutionary. hes more radical than bernie in policy but he needs some of that righteous anger and grumpy yelling and calling out the bad dudes that bernie does so well. corbyn seems too polite and nice. maybe thats just a brit thing

its totally a brit thing

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

I'm going in to interview with the PSL on Wednesday to see how I can help. I expect I'll get along just fine; in real life, socialists tend to be earnest and helpful, unlike Internet tankies, who are tedious and mendacious. I see myself as more of a soc dem, but whatever, nationalize the financial sector, it's not like I actually give a poo poo. I've read a ton of socialist literature, including primary sources. I'm broadly sympathetic to the socialist critique. When someone says "look, forget the worst excesses of the USSR (though keep in mind the good stuff) -- when socialism comes to the US, we'll obviously be able to do everything much, much better," I'm content to roll with that idea.

Then some idiot goes and declares Cuba a democracy. Oh, really. So that's what we're in for, then, when the revolution comes?

Hard. loving. pass.

i mean i've literally said the thing you quoted on many many occasions but go ahead and ignore that to continue pushing idealism as leftism and dismissing any support of actually existing socialism

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Homework Explainer posted:

i mean i've literally said the thing you quoted on many many occasions

That was obviously the point.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Baloogan posted:

gently caress just loving go for it full socailism or whatever

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
yeh i like having a socalist and a super republican/capitalist country that im a citizen of so if im a lazy sack of poo poo who gets nothing done im gonna be here in canada but when i start my super innovative high tech high speed innovative low drag lean and mean innovative agile software startup ill do it in trumpland

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
"Communism"

*record skip* :chloe:


"Socialism"

Now thats what im blabbin about yall this is 💯 my jam rite here 👌👌👌

Aeolius
Jul 16, 2003

Simon Templeman Fanclub

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

Then some idiot goes and declares Cuba a democracy. Oh, really. So that's what we're in for, then, when the revolution comes?
As far as I can see, all anyone is asking you to consider is:
  • The word "democracy" isn't univocal.
  • There can be multiple ways of structuring socialism, just like there are multiple ways of structuring capitalism.
  • One cannot meaningfully consider the "authoritarian" aspects of Cuban life (or, indeed, authoritarianism writ large) outside the context of the challenges and threats facing or otherwise perceived by that society. In Cuba's case, these are real and ongoing.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Lastgirl posted:

"Communism"
Now thats what im blabbin about yall this is 💯 my jam rite here 👌👌👌

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

As to Cuba, I've investigated the conditions of their system, and if a one party state, in which that party has exclusive control of the media, in which no one from outside the establishment is permitted to hold or even contest state offices at levels higher than municipal, constitutes a democracy, then congratulations, you have succeeded in rendering the word meaningless.

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

EXCUSE me but the United States is a republic not a democracy so please gently caress off with this critique

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

These are not and have never been opposing concepts, so unless this is a joke that missed, I don't know what you're trying to say.


To the People of the State of New York:

AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations. The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected. Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true. It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.

There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.

It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves. The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation, but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the creditors are parties on one side and the debtors on the other. Justice ought to hold the balance between them. Yet the parties are, and must be, themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or, in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail. Shall domestic manufactures be encouraged, and in what degree, by restrictions on foreign manufactures? are questions which would be differently decided by the landed and the manufacturing classes, and probably by neither with a sole regard to justice and the public good. The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of the whole.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS.

If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution. When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed. Let me add that it is the great desideratum by which this form of government can be rescued from the opprobrium under which it has so long labored, and be recommended to the esteem and adoption of mankind.

By what means is this object attainable? Evidently by one of two only. Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression. If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.

The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. On the other hand, the effect may be inverted. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people. The question resulting is, whether small or extensive republics are more favorable to the election of proper guardians of the public weal; and it is clearly decided in favor of the latter by two obvious considerations:

In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude. Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater in the small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

It must be confessed that in this, as in most other cases, there is a mean, on both sides of which inconveniences will be found to lie. By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. The federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures.

The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter. The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; and the smaller the number of individuals composing a majority, and the smaller the compass within which they are placed, the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression. Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other. Besides other impediments, it may be remarked that, where there is a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary.

Hence, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large over a small republic,--is enjoyed by the Union over the States composing it. Does the advantage consist in the substitution of representatives whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices and schemes of injustice? It will not be denied that the representation of the Union will be most likely to possess these requisite endowments. Does it consist in the greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties, against the event of any one party being able to outnumber and oppress the rest? In an equal degree does the increased variety of parties comprised within the Union, increase this security. Does it, in fine, consist in the greater obstacles opposed to the concert and accomplishment of the secret wishes of an unjust and interested majority? Here, again, the extent of the Union gives it the most palpable advantage.

The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting the character of Federalists.

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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

the first federalist papers were way better, sold out after the 3rd

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

my local DSA finally getting their meme game strong

https://twitter.com/Boston_DSA/status/803272902711922688

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

same but different

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

the revolution is coming comrades

https://twitter.com/coby_persin/status/803034363306704896

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



Good.

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

I was in nyc the other week and a guy on a pedicab yelled "you can identify the pigs by their money and their wealth!" at me from across the street so I just took it as a compliment that I was dressed well

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

i like corbyn but i dont see him as a angry revolutionary. hes more radical than bernie in policy but he needs some of that righteous anger and grumpy yelling and calling out the bad dudes that bernie does so well. corbyn seems too polite and nice. maybe thats just a brit thing

corby boy folds under pressure, witness his lack of opposition to brexit and the snoopers charter.

He's a nice enough move in the correct direction (away from New Labour), but third-way politics has taught us that incrementalism just reduces the speed of collapse rather than averting it. Full socialist democracy now, comrades.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


hell yeah

he should have wailed on the car a few more times

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

:downswords:

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Sir, the question was, "Is this your handwriting?"

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

i dream of doing this

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Lastgirl posted:

its totally a brit thing

It's a certain type of Brit thing. It's a pinko thing. It's a "Mum's friend from her Open University course" thing.

Corbyn needs to power up into his second form, and soon, because May isn't giving any quarter even to her own side ("YOU WILL NOT DISAGREE ABOUT HEATHROW") and unlike 🚽 she knows how politics works.

I mean ideally we'd have a breeding program where we could cross Corbyn with Bernie and get something which is extremely my jam, but that sort of eugenics is frowned upon so I'm just gonna have to keep sending him angry letters via air mail where I threaten to repatriate to Corbyn's constituency and spend 40 hours a week in his office yelling Das Kapital through a megaphone


(in ed balls' voice)

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Oct 23, 2002


this is the batman we need

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