Posted in Apathy, CWU, Capitilism, Disillusion, Frustration, Labour, Marxism, Political, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism, rant on October 9, 2007 | 11 Comments »
“What do you think this is? A liberal democracy or something, you posties are forgetting one vital thing, you’re freedom is not an option and you don’t get to choose your own working conditions you should plug away at the job until you retire and don’t get a pension, you do as we say when we say [...]
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The point of most Philosophy is to return to the very essential questions and premises of reality and then work outwards, a concept which sounds so very simple and yet is more difficult than you’d think.
Because of course you have to find out the basic premise in the first place, otherwise you can spend a [...]
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As me and my fellow rats are blowing up our waterwings and viewing the horizon for a passing ship the lumbering liner that is Royal Mail steaming full speed ahead begins to dig itself into its watery grave.
A slightly rhetorical description but not so far from the truth.
The situation is getting increasingly nasty and true [...]
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Posted in Blair, Capitilism, Class Conflict, Free Market, Government, Industry, Labour, Major, Marxism, Materialism, Political, Property Market, Social, Socialism, Society, Thatcher, UK politics, Unionism on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
How would we go about applying libertarianism to Socialism, given that due to history many people seem to labour under some major misconceptions about both.
I’m thinking now back to the idea that was popularized by John Major, the interim primeminister in the void between Thatcherism and Blairism. He wanted to create a classless society, and [...]
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The examples of the USSR, China and Cuba have been widely upheld as the failure of Socialism and all its precepts, as a result most modern ’socialist’ parties have abandoned their plans for social reform and taken a more Laissez-Faire attitude toward managing Capitalist society as best they can, without ever seriously challenging the status [...]
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Posted in Capitilism, Culture, Education, New World Order, Political, Religion, Science, Social, Socialism, Society, Speculation, Utopia on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
It strikes me that one main problem I have in my thought process is that of generalisation, you see I won’t lie, or try and deny the fact that I really don’t like other people, and in most cases tend to look down on them in no small way.
Such an outlook is in reality indefensible [...]
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It struck me today whilst conversing with a colleauge about the nature of the current industrial dispute that the fashionable fervour for a free market ignores one very interesting fact.
The idea behind the free market is that by introducing competition to previously state owned monopolies you will initiate a sudden rush to become more productive, [...]
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