Stalin was the first to translate the Georgian chivalric tale Panther Knight into Russian. Before he was 20. Trump on the other hand struggles with basic english. So theres another one. 

‘Broken windows policing - as ugly as it may be - actually does reduce crime.’

We aren’t going to agree, you seem pretty much orthodox stalinist to me, I offer you a discussion on current material conditions as they stand with reference to incarceration under capitalist society, what is now, not the ghosts of sankara or the faded glories- but you decline to take me up. To you they are…

citing marx as a god not a text :ffs:

I’d say the Tower of London has the most unquiet shades when it comes to old castles. Smothered princes and doomed noblemen...

most people at that level represent themselves, they are part of the establishment. This is the establishment arguing about pay differentials, the rest of us can swivel and continue to enjoy the decades long wage stagnation we’ve endured. These people, bte, are all Oxbridge educated scions of the upper middle class. I…

the BBC is a god damned joke and has been since the 80s at least. It does good drama and quality documentaries. Everything else is garbage. Note of course that the arguments going on are not about male/female pay disparity in the wider world, just in the higher echalons of auntie fucking beeb. Bah.

left-communist here, lenin and trotsky need not apply. Engels I do have time for. I know what marx said about lumpenproles and I know what he said about jews to that said his critique of capitalism is still the defining work. but lets do aside with identity politics here and talk about material conditions for society…

no, I’m afraid thats just assertion mixed in with assumption. I’m working class white, not that identity should really mean much in this discussion. You also get no choice in who the state bombs, who it gladhands and who it does or not grant rights to. Your vote is a piss in the wind. Don’t give me all that ‘I worked…

theres plenty of self directed study that can be done without resorting to the holy texts. On the matter of ‘trash’ or otherwise, its reading for pleasure. Not sure you get to be the judge of what people read for pleasure. In any case literacy in prison of any kind is to be applauded, the few times I’ve met honest to…

I was having this argument with a cryptofreak the other day. All I ask is for a reasonable look at actual use value.

thats Red Army Faction or Rote Armee Fraktion. Baader Meinhoff was what the papers called them

please, the centre right lost to trump and only then because it fielded an appalling candidate. The actual left-of-pinochet people saw it coming too.

I’ve noticed a sort of reflexive disdain for russian engineering from americans so many times, but lets not forget who got out there first. I think the disdain is a hangover from growing up in the tail end of the cold war for most of the 30-40 year olds. Echoing the things their fathers said

some of the chechen fighters who were around when Daesh first got started had big ginger beards. Maybe he got confused with that somehow? Our press mislabeled them as ‘IS special forces’ which was quickly dropped because they weren’t, they were veteran war vultures yes, but hardly the SAS

China Mieville’s ‘October’ is edging it for me.

jesus was a middle eastern chap who spent a lot of time outdoors in the gallilean sun. America wouldn’t let him past customs these days, too brown.

yeah that is what in UK english is known as ‘a cunt’s trick’.

those trains never did run on schedule once the RAF, Yank and Polish airforce started pounding the shit out of german infrastructure.

well the american deep state did flood black and working class areas, first with heroin and later with crack. This was in part a response to the New Left of 1968, the anti war movement, civil rights struggles, powerful and well organised Union movements and- sing it together now- good old fashioned anti-communist…