Britain's the husk of a fallen empire, its top industry is finance. It's like a landlord who inherited the property of a successful corporate raider, but only knows to live off the proceeds (and fortunately his big American brother is a gun-wielding psycho). You can understand Germany subjecting Greece to austerity - xenophobic imperialism 101. But Britain's been subjecting its own people to austerity. Brits used to be the footsoldiers of empire, a dirty business, but one with glory and spoils. Now they're back to being the surplus population that's just getting in the way of its finance-managing betters.
On the flip side there's been a huge resurgence in socialism in the younger generation and Corbyn was a worthy figurehead. At the same time our attachments to him are only sentimental, and anybody worth their salt has just witnessed first hand a demonstration of the devastating might of the capitalist establishment. You learn more from defeat and all that.
This is a point I try to tell to my self as much as I do others. The scale of capitalism is beyond imagination, any action will only see it rise to greater heights to match any effort. Direct actions are unsustainable over long periods.
Everyone on that godforsaken island thinks left=antisemitism now it seems. I know some trot who studies there, the org she is part of had to go through some kind of "ethics investigation" at her university because they wrote something like "maybe murdering palestinians is bad", which was apparently antisemitic. Hadn't they passed it they'd literally be banned from the uni, but thankfully they haven't gone that insane yet.
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Brits are as fully brainwormed as Americans, maybe even moreso
Britain's the husk of a fallen empire, its top industry is finance. It's like a landlord who inherited the property of a successful corporate raider, but only knows to live off the proceeds (and fortunately his big American brother is a gun-wielding psycho). You can understand Germany subjecting Greece to austerity - xenophobic imperialism 101. But Britain's been subjecting its own people to austerity. Brits used to be the footsoldiers of empire, a dirty business, but one with glory and spoils. Now they're back to being the surplus population that's just getting in the way of its finance-managing betters.
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On the flip side there's been a huge resurgence in socialism in the younger generation and Corbyn was a worthy figurehead. At the same time our attachments to him are only sentimental, and anybody worth their salt has just witnessed first hand a demonstration of the devastating might of the capitalist establishment. You learn more from defeat and all that.
This is a point I try to tell to my self as much as I do others. The scale of capitalism is beyond imagination, any action will only see it rise to greater heights to match any effort. Direct actions are unsustainable over long periods.
Yeah. The British left is actually in a worse off position than before and even in a worse position than Americans which is astounding
i really don't know how you can combat a media that just straight up lies and distorts reality.
the manufacturing of consent on this issue has been very thorough
Everyone on that godforsaken island thinks left=antisemitism now it seems. I know some trot who studies there, the org she is part of had to go through some kind of "ethics investigation" at her university because they wrote something like "maybe murdering palestinians is bad", which was apparently antisemitic. Hadn't they passed it they'd literally be banned from the uni, but thankfully they haven't gone that insane yet.