Johnson is in print using "bumboys" and "piccaninies". If you can't engage with that, why should anyone else engage with the far sparser "evidence" you can muster for Corbyn's supposed anti-Semitism?android wrote:The main reason I am still banging on about Marxism is that whenever I have pointed out that Mcdonnell is a Marxist (nice try with the once said routine btw) people that have suggested Marxism is not bad have also claimed that I have smeared him! I just wish those that like Marxism would embrace it and own it.
Anyway, if the comrades gain power, it does not matter whether they call their change of system socialism, Marxism or communism. I prefer our capitalist system, which has been incredibly successful here and elsewhere.
Thanks to dsr and Paul Waine for quickly pointing out some of the many variables that debunk the idiotic 130k deaths claim. And I'm sure you have your reasons for maintaining that Johnson's lies matter more than Corbyn's lies but "racist" and "homophobic"? Dear oh dear, it's just not worth engaging with that.
Hopefully I can take a back seat now as the Farage announcement has taken centre stage...
It's impossible to say exactly how many people austerity is responsible for killing: https://fullfact.org/health/130000-prev ... austerity/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; So how many do you reckon it killed? Those who have committed suicide after being found "fit for work" (a label that gets overturned thirty percent of the time on appeal)? The man who died because his electricity was cut off, and his insulin went off in his fridge? The victims of knife crime that increased as a result of cutting twenty thousand police? And what about the attendant misery austerity has caused, with food bank usage, in-work poverty, wage suppression, people forced to move away from their family and support networks because of the benefit cap, people who've had to move out of their home because their child died, and the government penalised them for having an extra room. What the Tories have done is nothing short of evil to some in our country. I shudder when I think of what some of my tax money goes to fund - like an immigration policy that pays companies to search out people to deport - and as we know, many of those have been deported wrongly. If they form the next government, and the authors of Britannia Unchained get to implement their ideas (getting the British worker to compete with Indian and Chinese workers), then things will get even worse.
We don't live in a capitalist country. We've had a mixed economy for over a hundred years (arguably longer). All Labour are looking to do is redress the balance away from the greed and rapaciousness of private ownership, and take back control, and run some sectors as public services. You describe McDonnell as though he's speaking now with restraint, but as soon as he gets into Number 11, he'll unleash his secret plan to turn Britain into East Germany. Why would he do this? Who would it be for? With the Tories we already know the answer. Johnson and the rest will say the NHS is fine and untouchable, but the fact is the people who fund the Tory Party would love to open the NHS to more private provision, because they'll make more money out of it - and the same with the rest of our public services. There is no large group of Marxists out there ready to profit from Britain becoming a communist country.