tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591186784456519139.post993826749618816003..comments2024-01-02T17:38:32.872+00:00Comments on Economics of Imperialism: Imperialism & the Working ClassTony Norfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03896437404164741498noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591186784456519139.post-53475700467917636282021-09-18T10:52:32.518+01:002021-09-18T10:52:32.518+01:00I totally agree with this, Marx and Engels make ma...I totally agree with this, Marx and Engels make many other remarks about this in their notes on Ireland. It is important because large swathes of the left buy into the women’s rights baloney. I.e. they sugar coat the criminality with humanitarianism. This is just a modern version of the old colonial justification that the natives were sub human. <br /><br />I would say though that Engels underestimated how much workers generally benefit from imperialist supremacy, the point though is that the workers themselves fully understand!<br /><br />My assessment of the current situation is that Britain is at a bit of a crossroads, could Brexit undermine the privileges of the British working classes or will Britain play an even more nefarious role in world affairs to retain these privileges (if it is possible for them to be any more nefarious)?<br /><br />The last point is even more pessimistic, I see no real evidence that that workers in nations that are oppressed are any more taken with socialism!<br />SteveHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591186784456519139.post-32499536626233800312021-09-13T09:13:24.008+01:002021-09-13T09:13:24.008+01:00This is a necessary counter to the many other piec...This is a necessary counter to the many other pieces I keep reading elsewhere in Left media which place the blame for the lack of socialism in the UK and the USA entirely on the shoulders of Left leaders. Are ordinary people really completely unable to make their own bad decisions and act in their own selfish, short-term interests? I give you this example:<br /><br />"PRESTON, UK - Jack sits down with his pint in the Fielden Arms in Mellor and contemplates his latest shift making Typhoon warplanes for the Saudi air force. Tucking into steak and chips, the 25-year-old talks of moving in with his girlfriend, his good pay at the nearby BAE factory - £40,000, almost twice the local average - and the security it brings. And then he thinks of the people those planes will be sent to kill.<br />"You see the children in Yemen starving on the 10 o’clock news," he tells Middle East Eye. "But you try to not pay attention and just get on with it."<br />His friend, Harry, interjects: "It's really weird and there is no way to describe it, because you are in essence building a weapon of mass destruction."<br />So why don't they quit? "Good pay and job security," Jack responds, taking another sip of his beer. "If the military contracts go, 7,000 people go with them." Jack is like thousands of others who works at the BAE Systems factory in nearby Samlesbury, outside Preston in Lancashire, making parts that will be assembled in nearby Warton to create Typhoons, the most advanced jet fighters operated by the Saudis over Yemen. There, the Saudis have contributed to a civil war with the most terrible violence: bombing civilians, blowing up hospitals and imposing a siege that has condemned millions of Yemenis to slow starvation and poverty."<br /> <br />https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/made-britain-tested-yemenis-reality-working-bombmakersThis Wreckagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14142858380774928433noreply@blogger.com