Keyboard Warrior Hits The Road....

A._Badger

It's the same old disgruntled middle class 'useful idiot' rabble that gathers whenever it gets the chance. The US Embassy, Dale Farm, Save The Whale, Grunwick, Greenham Common.... the venues change but the show remains the same.

Sooner or later they grow up, realise gravity is immutable and that wishing won't change the universe. Unless they become lecturers, of course - in which case they transmit the virus to the next generation wannabe class warriors.

TruckerT

A._Badger wrote: »

It's the same old disgruntled middle class 'useful idiot' rabble that gathers whenever it gets the chance. The US Embassy, Dale Farm, Save The Whale, Grunwick, Greenham Common.... the venues change but the show remains the same.

Sooner or later they grow up, realise gravity is immutable and that wishing won't change the universe. Unless they become lecturers, of course - in which case they transmit the virus to the next generation wannabe class warriors.

The Save the Whale movement, and all its brothers and sisters, has been pretty successful in the public consciousness, and whaling has diminished

The Greenham Common protests have also succeeded in their aims

Dale Farm was about law enforcement, and nothing else

Not sure what you mean about the US Embassy, or Grunwick - I'll google it now

TruckerT

TruckerT

Grunwick was an industrial dispute involving one small company, and seems to have had a lot to do with the rights of female workers. 35 years on, women are in a much better position than they were in the mid-70s

Still not sure about the US Embassy - do you mean the anti-Vietnam war protests?

TruckerT

A._Badger

TruckerT wrote: »

Grunwick was an industrial dispute involving one small company, and seems to have had a lot to do with the rights of female workers. 35 years on, women are in a much better position than they were in the mid-70s

Still not sure about the US Embassy - do you mean the anti-Vietnam war protests?

TruckerT

Grunwick, like the other causes mentioned, was co-opted by the Frankfurt school Marxist rabble, which uses whatever it can as grist to its revolutionary mill. It relies on any and every cause it can to exacerbate discord in the hope that it will finally achieve its aim - a 'socialist revolution'.

Don't bother Googling the Vietnam protests - try educating yourself about Antonio Gramsci and the 'Frankfurt School'.

On the other hand, why not post myopic anti-capitalist rants to an Internet forum and showing your 'solidarity' with the sort of people who think Pol Pot and Che were misunderstood socialist visionaries?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

TruckerT wrote: »

Not long ago, you said they all went home at night for a hot shower...

Are you sure what you believe?

TruckerT

I don't believe or disbelieve anything.

As I said, I have no idea what they're on about. People here claim one thing (banks), their spokeswoman claims another (teacher pensions).

Journalists provide evidence they're all off home at nights, their spokeswoman says they're just in the tea tent, but then admits she'll be leaving the protest to go back home and back to work shortly.

Quite frankly it's all a bit of a shambles.

Seems as if you're having a hard time articulating what it's all about as well.

Perhaps you'll be able to report back after your visit.;)

neverdespairgirl

TruckerT wrote: »

The first half of the 20th century was a period of massive worldwide upheaval, including the introduction of Communism and the birth of the Labour Party/Trade Union movement

Get my drift?

TruckerT

I didn't get your drift, no.

that's probably because the Independent Labour Party was founded in the 19th century (towards the end of it) and the Trade Union movement much earlier than the 20th century. The TUC was formed in the 1860s, and had ancestor bodies, too.

TruckerT

A._Badger wrote: »

Grunwick, like the other causes mentioned, was co-opted by the Frankfurt school Marxist rabble, which uses whatever it can as grist to its revolutionary mill. It relies on any and every cause it can to exacerbate discord in the hope that it will finally achieve its aim - a 'socialist revolution'.

Don't bother Googling the Vietnam protests - try educating yourself about Antonio Gramsci and the 'Frankfurt School'.

On the other hand, why not post myopic anti-capitalist rants to an Internet forum and showing your 'solidarity' with the sort of people who think Pol Pot and Che were misunderstood socialist visionaries?

I guess I was right about the US embassy/Vietnam war link...

TruckerT

TruckerT

I googled what you said, and what follows is the first paragraph of the second article which I tried to read, and which I think was anti-Gramsci/Frankfurt School (it was published in 1999):-

Who in America today is at work destroying our traditions, our family bonds, our religious beginnings, our reinforcing institutions, indeed, our entire culture? What is it that is changing our American civilization?

Dare I suggest that such a paragraph could just as easily be the introduction to a hand-out from Occupy Wall Street?

TruckerT

TruckerT

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I didn't get your drift, no.

that's probably because the Independent Labour Party was founded in the 19th century (towards the end of it) and the Trade Union movement much earlier than the 20th century. The TUC was formed in the 1860s, and had ancestor bodies, too.

I think you're being a bit picky!

TruckerT

Herbie_Hancock_I_wish

I feel a teenie bit proud that I was at the Grosvenor Square anti Vietnam war rally in 1967. I was with a Christian pacifist group from my teachers training college. Quietly protested but still got attacked by the police. Later on demonstrated against Cruise missiles being parked here, racism and the last one was the poll tax.

Always remember coming home from an anti Cruise march in London and turning on the TV. My wife was in the very front of the march and the camera did a close up of this very pretty lady in a light blue jacket, it was my wife! Got a bit perplexed as we were both leaving for New York the following week. Thankfully there was no heavy hand on our shoulders from the CIA.

Hey it is good to get out and stand up for what you believe. Just keep it peaceful and do it with respect. Good `un on you Trucker T.