If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Einherjar86]

The point is you don't bother to understand the context of his relation to his contemporaries, or his relation to contemporary British Marxism. He was as indebted to British communism as he was critical of it. He wasn't a staunch anti-communist critic, he was a staunch critic of totalitarianism. And he acknowledged the potentiality for communist ideology to manifest in totalitarianism, just as he acknowledged the potentiality for liberal ideals to manifest in totalitarianism; but that didn't means he disagreed wholeheartedly with contemporary British Marxism, or that he saw capitalism as more attractive than socialism.

His critique of Stalinist Russia wasn't a wholesale critique of communism. If he saw "through the looking-glass," then that looking-glass showed him the evils of capitalism too. Just wanted to make sure you know that.

 

[Dak]

that didn't means he disagreed wholeheartedly with contemporary British Marxism, or that he saw capitalism as more attractive than socialism.........If he saw "through the looking-glass," then that looking-glass showed him the evils of capitalism too. Just wanted to make sure you know that.

Well that is evident in Wigans Pier. However, it's evident that he recognized that proles had no use for the agitant bourgeoisie, nor the bourgeoisie for the true classlessness required of Marxism. In short, marxism was dead in the water, and if he was honest with himself, so was his communal Luddism.

 

[CiG]

No formal complaint against Wilfrid Laurier student Lindsay Shepherd, lawyer confirms.

This is just becoming weird.

 

[Dak]

"Regret rape" probs. Again.

 

[arg]

Non-productive members of society ideally should be allowed to die off, but if you really must keep them alive for humanitarian reasons, their quality of life definitely should not be comfortable, they should be made to work whenever possible, and they should be heavily disincentivized from and even punished for reproducing.

 

[CiG]

"Regret rape" probs. Again.

It's about the TA who secretly recorded being dressed down by faculty for showing a debate about transgenderism and pronouns featuring Jordan Peterson.

Her lawyer is now saying that the official complaints that the faculty claimed were the catalyst to their meeting most likely never existed to begin with.

 

[Einherjar86]

"Regret rape" probs. Again.

da fuq?

No formal complaint against Wilfrid Laurier student Lindsay Shepherd, lawyer confirms.

This is just becoming weird.

If this is true, the faculty here are out of line. I can only speculate as to their intentions and impressions of the situation, but it doesn't appear to be an example of collegiate academic responsibility.

Disagreeable content (which is entirely relative, of course), especially in a debate format, needs to be introduced in classrooms, properly contextualized and historicized.

 

[Dak]

It's about the TA who secretly recorded being dressed down by faculty for showing a debate about transgenderism and pronouns featuring Jordan Peterson.

Her lawyer is now saying that the official complaints that the faculty claimed were the catalyst to their meeting most likely never existed to begin with.

Gotcha. Didn't click the link, getting tired of the witch hunts.

 

[CiG]

It makes him sad that Taylor Swift's DNA will be polluted by Africa, via Drake's cock.

 

[CiG]

"Cisgender Paradigm II"

"S. J. W."

I mean, musically it's pretty cool... [cringes a bit]

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Non-productive members of society ideally should be allowed to die off, but if you really must keep them alive for humanitarian reasons, their quality of life definitely should not be comfortable, they should be made to work whenever possible, and they should be heavily disincentivized from and even punished for reproducing.

arg 2020.

 

[CiG]

Trump will run against him on a platform of anti-fascism.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

"Cisgender Paradigm II"

"S. J. W."

I mean, musically it's pretty cool... [cringes a bit]

Kinda hoped this would be satirical but I get the feeling it's not. I wish there were lyrics available, kinda wanna know how bad they are.

 

[CiG]

Probably something about grinding the guts of the cisnormative.

 

[arg]

arg 2020.

Trump will run against him on a platform of anti-fascism.

What sucks is that in most western countries, the exact opposite of what I said is true: people on welfare can afford smartphones and drugs, they have unemployment benefits, and get more welfare for having more kids.

Dumbass lefty governments provide those benefits to the local bums, and to a large extent, illegals and refugees as well! Talk about fucking stupid and counterproductive! Society is on a path to ruin unless I save it!

 

[CiG]

But once you attain power you'll no longer care about society Slouching Toward Gomorrah and will simply revert back to being the ass-spelunker among men.

 

[Einherjar86]

Society is on a path to ruin unless I save it!

I think I'll take ruin.

 

[Einherjar86]

Well that is evident in Wigans Pier. However, it's evident that he recognized that proles had no use for the agitant bourgeoisie, nor the bourgeoisie for the true classlessness required of Marxism. In short, marxism was dead in the water, and if he was honest with himself, so was his communal Luddism.

I'm not sure about your assessment. This is timely and convenient:

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-orwell-used-wartime-rationing-to-argue-for-global-justice

In a provocative essay entitled ‘Not Counting my pals’ (1939), Orwell wrote that he refused ‘to lie about’ the disparity in income between England and India. The disparity is so great that, he asserted, an Indian’s leg is commonly thinner than an Englishman’s arm. ‘One mightn’t think it when one looks round the back streets of Sheffield, but the average British income is to the Indian as 12 to one. How can one get anti-Fascist … solidarity in such circumstances?’ he asked in a 1943 review of a book by his friend Mulk Raj Anand. To Britons, he explained that ‘Indians refuse to believe that any class-struggle exists in Europe. In their eyes the underpaid, downtrodden English worker is himself an exploiter.’ Orwell doesn’t say that the Indians are wrong, and there is much evidence that he thought they were right. ‘Under the capitalist system,’ he had written in The Road to Wigan Pier (1936), ‘in order that England may live in comparative comfort, a hundred million Indians must live on the verge of starvation.’ Six years later, he wrote: ‘The overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat doesn’t live in Britain but in Asia and Africa … This is the system which we all live on …’ Orwell recognised that, at a global scale, underpaid and downtrodden English workers were exploiters.

 

[Dak]

Typical. An SJW implying everyone was living in lavish splendor before the oppressive white male capitalist showed up.

 

[Einherjar86]

Actually, that's what Orwell was implying. He quotes the man.