Jonathan Jo Morton

Think - under the banalities hawked around by politicians and the press - why should a highly contagious virus cause such economic disruption? If we were living in a what we might call a primitive society and economy, if people had to stay at home for the duration, it would not make that much difference; so long as a sufficient number of workers were able to continue to provide the basic necessities of life there would be no economic melt-down. But we don’t live in a primitive society. If we aren’t able to go to work, we won’t have the cash to buy the goods and services provided by all the other people who would need to go to work, or they themselves wouldn’t have the cash to buy what we ourselves produce, and so on and so forth.  We wouldn’t have the money to pay the rent, so the landlord that bought the property to let wouldn’t be able to pay the mortgage, and so on and so forth. We are all in this merry go round in which we are not so much providing goods and services that we (and o

I came across this image on the net The bi-line was  “Iceland is one of the most advanced fish processing factories in the world” Is it worth it? What sort of a life, sitting in the cold for an endless succession of shifts sitting in the cold filleting fish? Is this what “progress” offers human beings?  A life worth living and a life that is a pleasure to live?  

the methods used by the Bolsheviks in order to take power and to retain power during the Civil War of 1918–21, materially contributed to the formation of the Stalinist system as it took shape during the 1930s  (Callinicos)

The liberal-leftist position  (those who want true democracy for the people, but without secret police to fight the counterrevolution, and without their academic privileges being threatened . (Zizek)