"London housing benefit claimant numbers soaring..." - The Guardian

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Road_Hog wrote: »

Being against Marxism does not make you a racist.

Just as being against Racism does not make you a Marxist.

Ilya_Ilyich

Road_Hog wrote: »

There you go again, out with the racism accusation. I'm against Marxism, please stop levelling the racism allegation at me because of this. Being against Marxism does not make you a racist.

Okay let's try another tack. Do you think racism is a problem in Britain?

Road_Hog wrote: »

It's not my list, it is the Frankfurt School 11 point plan. Please don't try and pin it on me.

This sounds interesting; where is this plan from? Do you have somewhere we could read more about it?

Generali wrote: »

Communism in practice didn't have such a great record against racism.

Look at how Mao (a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist) treated internal minorities or how Stalin (a self-proclaimed Marxist) treated Jews. I judge people by their actions rather than their words.

Was Stalin demonstrably anti-Jewish as opposed to anti-Zionist? I understand ethnicity has always been a Thing in China; was this more pronounced under Mao? I know basically nothing on the topic so if you have any recommendations on where to read about it I'd appreciate it!

e: I'm for real trying to read up on the Frankfurt School's 11-point plan but all I can find are unsourced blog posts or white supremacist websites

FTBFun

A._Badger wrote: »

Comrade Ilych is trolling. Comrade FTB is too lazy to read the (boring, I admit) history of cultural Marxism.

I know what cultural marxism is. I just don't think its practiced to the extent some have argued here.

I have no time for any extreme ideologies, marxism included.

sharnad

thats what you get with the high rise in unemployment - employment levels dropped 34,000 in the quarter