A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
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What British philosopher Bertrand Russell said about the cause of war and the ideal of SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM way back in 1915 is still pertinent today. Israeli ZIONISM is yet another form of toxic ethnocentric nationalism . All the bourgeois governments of Europe - turning a deaf ear to their own people-want to align themselves in moribund NATO against POST-COMMUNIST Russia. How many bourgeois or royalist governments were brought down after the first glorious " WAR TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY " ? How effective will stale Wilsonian blather be in exciting jackass war fever for nuclear World War III ? What if it inspires a second BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION in Russia ?
Bertrand Russell on war :
[ " It cannot be doubted that the desire on the part of the rich to distract men’s minds from the claims of social justice has been more or less unconsciously one of the motives leading to war in modern Europe. Everywhere the well-to-do and the political parties which represent their interests have been the chief agents in stirring up international hatred and in persuading the working man that his real enemy is the foreigner. Thus war, and the fear of war, has a double-effect in retarding social progress: it diminishes the resources available for improving the condition of the wage-earning classes, and it distracts men’s minds from the need and possibility of general improvement by persuading them that the way to better themselves is to injure their comrades in some other country. It is as a protest against this delusion that international socialism has arisen, and whatever may be thought of socialism as an economic doctrine, its internationalism makes it the sanest force in modern politics, and the only body which has preserved some degree of judgment and humanity in the present chaos." ]
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