http://www.2209watchmovement.com/history

really cool site to find out more on the Soviet watch history

Thats solid reasoning.

I need to invest in a slimmer strap.

Call me a monster but I actually preferred the green 😂🤓

3 piece safety razor from the 1950s. And soon a watch from 1950 too. Its a wind up watch.

Garry’s Economic

You obviously lack self awareness and maybe social awareness too, so you may of not noticed the month long public back lash taking place when national service had been discussed by the Tories. It felt very real to many of us. As for labour, its a hunch and based in historical materialism, and an increased military propaganda. Large wars need soldiers, if the propaganda doesn’t work then national service will.

War isn’t for the working class, we have had no choice in the matter, and now with media spinning narratives we are manipulated into a pro war position to feed our tax’s and lives into the military industrial complex this will make the greedy few a little richer.

So I am anti war, murdering each other is a grim idea for me.

The Israel Palestine war, my stance is the workers on both sides need a revolt and to overthrow the elite in their society.

Russia also needs to revolt and overthrow their government.

These two ideas won’t happen though, as global superpowers won’t want to harm the statuesque where a global revolution could take place.

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We’re not arguing or at least I’m not. So calm down don’t be rude.

calm down.

I’m of service age, labour (uk government) and the Tories tickled around the idea of national service and patriotism has been ramping up in the last year.

Here comes a senseless world war. Here’s hoping Russia backs down fast.

Stalin had Trotsky killed for how out spoken he had been on the USSR and its devolution from socialism to deformed communist state. one of his books FASCISM What It Is and How To Fight It is a great read, it explains the necessity for a party.

you might also be interested in Council Communism, it side steps the vanguard for a more transparent workers’ democracy.

Trotsky argued for The Permanent Revolution as a counter to the vanguard. Might be interesting to read.

Did you forget the /s

I know, should of added /s

I’m in a few local orgs and this is fucking nightmare fuel!

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socialists and Marxists get accused of being deterministic but if we look at history, through the decades capitalism is integrating socialism into it. I think at some point it will simply be socialism. We’re just not there yet, I think that won’t happen until human labor has no value.

A few points: Capitalism hasn’t freely integrated socialist ideas. Each idea has been won through workers’ struggle. Even after the fact, those wins are clawed back by the capitalist class. They will capitulate as a means to defend against revolution—which flows back into your Zizek quote: capitalism’s way of reinventing itself. But capitalism, as a political philosophy, will always maintain a ruling class and an underclass to exploit.

This is why we must continue to struggle, and why we should not see these small capitulations as proof that socialism will evolve naturally from capitalism.

PS: you would probably enjoy Leon Trotsky’s writings. One book he wrote: Fascism, What is it and How to Fight it. Where he takes a principalled and dialectical approach to the subject.

I agree—fascism, as I see it, is capitalism in a death spiral. Capitalist economies aren’t able to offer stability or continuous growth. Once things start hitting the upper end of the bell curve, we will see corporations and the managers of capital (politicians) pulling and pressing all the buttons and levers in a frantic effort to maintain course. This won’t work. As a last-ditch effort, fascism is employed by the ruling class as a means to strong-arm against revolution, as workers see wages become incapable of maintaining pace with inflation.

All this is to say: capitalism is deeply flawed. The corporations would prefer a muted underclass over the revolutionary type we can expect in the coming years. And to repress a revolutionary workforce, fascism will be used.