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Liz Thompson's avatar

The idea of putting a 'like' made me hesitate. Since it is appalling. I have long long since abandoned the whole idea or concept of patriotism (and not because of feminism either!), as I firmly believe borders and barriers create a false argument for saying "You don't belong here". It didn't take a lot of deep thought to understand the statement 'All private property is theft from the community', and understand how that works out over time and history, especially when it results in colonialism, imperialism, the House of Lords, the balance of land ownership being a total imbalance between wealth and poverty, and power staying fast in the hands of those who have the land, or the wealth, or the influence, or the friends, or the inherited power. And the sad thing is - I was encouraged to respect and congratulate those who desert us and joined their ranks. In other words, school taught me I should be subordinate. Just as well anarchism taught me different.

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Graham Vincent's avatar

Nice bookend as it would have been, the Labour party wasn't started by a Keir and ended by a Keir. It was ended by a Tony. Give him the award. All the Jeremy did after that was try to reinject a bit of socialism into the socialist party.

A shock, yes. But you're right on one thing: no surprise.

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