"Show don't tell" is bullshit and the reason Lord of the Rings is the most popular book in modern western literature is because it has a big bunch of maps in it and tons of exposition.
See also - the best of Game of Thrones was the Small Council meetings.
The Grapes of Wrath, or even Uncle Tom's Cabin, scared the ruling class that social realism became something that had to be stamped out in favour of shit that is nearly entirely stripped of socio-political content and is all about form and individual characters.
What is considered "Good Literature" is a CIA conspiracy to push anodyne books about "the ennui of a depressed midwestern college lecturer" (to borrow Terry Pratchett's phrase) as a way to keep novels from becoming a medium that can express political criticism.
The topic I was addressing was the aim to prevent a split on the left between Greens and Socialists, but judging by the tenor of this conversation I think it's better we go our seperate ways and you carry on doing what you're doing without us. All the best.
I make no apologies for Your Party, but I will make my support for any political party contingent on whether or not they have a zero tolerance policy for transphobia. Can you say the same with the Greens?
I'm very happy that Polanski band that TERF group from the conference, but kicking the TERFs out of the Green party will mean removing dozens, maybe even *hundreds* of TERF Green councillors from the party. Is this process taking place?
Jenny Jones is a vehement transphobe and still carries the Green whip in the House of Lords, and Polanski has the option to remove the whip whenever he likes now. Has he done so? Or is this sort of thing fine when you lot do it?
3) I'm more than happy to not vote Green and not be part of this, go ahead and do what you are doing without me. I have no emotional or sentimental attachment to them and I don't have a great deal of faith in Polanski's newfound sincerity as a left-winger.
Yeah i know, but fighting a protracted bureaucratic war with Karie Murphy et al. for control of a party that doesn't exist yet doesn't exactly fill me with enthusiasm as to it being a successful project
Looking forward to seeing someone who believes that there are absolutely zero landlords in and amongst the 800 councillors the Green Party has get pissy with me about saying this
Tbh I don't really have the heart to battle these people over a party, but its good to see that the prospective membership/councillors involved in this party are not just gonna put up with having a bunch of fucking landlords and homophobes running it
Councillor says Your Party needs 'proper working-class people' running for office - not landlords
Your Party needs to be putting forward proper working-class candidates, whether they are nurses, or binmen, or teachers www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Tbh I don't really have the heart to battle these people over a party, but its good to see that the prospective membership/councillors involved in this party are not just gonna put up with having a bunch of fucking landlords and homophobes running it
Councillor says Your Party needs 'proper working-class people' running for office - not landlords
Your Party needs to be putting forward proper working-class candidates, whether they are nurses, or binmen, or teachers www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The continued silence about the escalating human rights abuses in the USA from the UK government ID shameful and we need to start pressuring the government on why it remains committed to allying with a state which is rapidly descending into outright tyranny.
This is a difficulty that needs to be overcome. There has to be some degree of co-operation between Greens and Socialists or else it becomes a problem for both.
I don't think Polanski is any kind of ideologically committed socialist, I think he's an opportunist who'll eventually let people down when the pressure gets turned on, and the Greens aren't a socialist party and there's a lot of right-wingers embedded deeply there especially at a local govt level
This works both ways though? Like there's no way I would be interested in working in a subordinate role to the Green Party, cos I don't take them seriously as a left-wing party. I'm happy enough they're doing well and capitalising on things, but I think it's a temporary situation.
And I don't think the Greens will ever be in a position to dictate terms to the rest of the left, that we have to fall in line with them, even with Polanski as leader.
... some other vehicle for the left eventually emerge one way or another, and I don't really want a situation where it becomes Greens vs Socialists, standing against each other and so forth.
Respectfully, as shit they've been, there does have to be some degree of cross party work cos there's a chunk of people, myself being one, who just simply aren't going to get involved with the Green Party. Doesn't mean that it even has to be Your Party, cos I don't see that going well, but...
