Re: VRA? nm. In your headline, T: "viable radical alternatives". Like revolution... Nothing in prosArchived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on October 15, 2019, 12:38 am, in reply to "VRA? nm"
-pect, is there? Realistically speaking. A Labour gov with JC as PM is the best - please note: realworld, actually-practicable - chance we have right now. And before all the purist theorisers chip in with their repeating loops again, consider that the - highly flawed and in many ways despicably imperfect - 1945 Labour government achieved a slew of practical, real improvements in the lives of all we proles of my parent's generation; to say nothing about all the benefits they handed to mine.
Theoretical, purist, flaw-free politics is a comfortably-situated-chatterati game. Then there are those - millions - like Gio and family, who are desperate for some practical, immediate relief. They need a Corbyn-led government urgently. And if that - with all its obvious shortcomings - can deliver what they need, then bollocks to all the theorising. It's just wank.
No-one - here or anywhere else - knows what the outcome of the election will be until its announced the day after election day. Nor do we know for sure what a JC premiership might actually achieve, in the actual upshot, against all the weight of establishment opposition; not until it's actually tried. And repeating like a speak-your-weight machine "ITYS!" again and again won't alter these realworld facts by a jot. We don't know what we can screw out of this rotten-ripe ukstate system until we grab it by the balls and squeeze. And there's just one realworld path to give that a try, that's actually available to us in Britain right now. Something truly revolutionary would be preferable. But we all know that's really not in prospect right now. Maybe in France soon; but not here; not visibly.
Jesus, sometimes you feel that the intelligentsia really don't know their arse from their elbow! Too much theory fecks up common sense.