Liberalism: A Counter History, by Domenico Losurdo. Mostly so far looking at how all the liberal revolutions and theorists ended up being at least lukewarm to slavery.

You are treating one side differently from the rest because one side is in a dramatically different situation to the other side and you are acting as if they are the same. Slaves and masters, oppressed and oppressor, treated with the “same” moral and ethical rigour despite one side actively trying to exploit the other.

After waiting 12 weeks for a 6 week course of CBT that does the bare minimum to get you functioning again: OK now get back to work little worker bee, hope you don’t freak out again. If you do freak out again, you have to re-join the 12 week wait list that is now actually 20 weeks. If you do group “therapy” (some online seminars), the wait list is still 12 weeks though!

It’s not about politeness, it’s that the crown have now firmly established themselves as part of the capitalist class, and expropriating them would be the same as expropriating any old capitalist. They have class solidarity and won’t allow that to happen baring outbreaks of war with foreign adversaries.

The DPRK is more democratic than the UK and you have no idea how its democratic and political system functions, and are invoking it as an anti-communist canard.

The UK is a democracy for the rich, where any wins that are forced out of them by the working class are slowly reversed back to the status quo.

She had the audacity to go on one of the flotilla to Palestine and get tortured by Israelis.

You are illiterate.

The Russian Federation is not an ethnostate lmao

The article is complete garbage, picked apart well by the other reply you had.

Not least because it spouted off the Uyghur genocide bullshit to smear China.

“Like it’s the bible.” You are a fucking idiot. Trotskyists call shit imperialist then when you point out that they are wrong and don’t even understand the book that they pulled the term from you get accused of quote mining. Get a grip.

Trotskyists failing to understand Lenin’s Imperialism for the 1000th time.

Imperialism is the stage of Capitalism where a militaristic foreign policy is developed and employed as a continuation of economic policy.

China is not doing imperialism because it trades with other nations and helps them build infrastructure and factories in win-win negotiations. When was the last time China got a trade deal or negotiated settlement because it pointed a load of guns and missiles at its potential trade partner?

Just childish and pathetic both sides-ism of the social fascists.

Those citations from that page come back to a book written by Jasper Becker, a right-wing journalist expelled from Hong Kong in the 90s and who became a Tory Councillor in the 2010s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Ghosts:_Mao's_Secret_Famine

His book plays fast and loose with statistics, and the margins of error are huge - somewhere between 15 and 55 million people died in the famine but this citation seemingly suggests 65 million died, above that even cited in the books Wikipedia article. Reading the citations in the book’s article leads you to a number of American (and American Chinese) authored articles that all pluck various numbers from this vast range.

Even a cursory amount of research and poking around links those various citations led to makes the presented state of affairs that seemed so ironclad and clear cut almost melt into meaningless. What else can be expected from anti-communist hit pieces so readily shared by idiots hoping to spread atrocity propaganda.

And when the EU kills thousands and thousands of people in the Mediterranean for trying to enter, that’s just the cost of doing business I suppose. Dinghys full of people that EU coast guards could rescue but don’t, for fear of the influx of refugees and immigrants into the EU. Left to die, drowning in the sea.

But China is evil because it controls the internal movement of its 1.4 billion population?

Tell me again the population of the EU. Of the population of the USA.

China is a developing country, it has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty by its policy decisions. It put an end to the famines that you attribute to malice as opposed to the costs of decades of civil war and invasion by fascist forces.

And all states are authoritarian, so it loses its explanatory value and is a useless term when used to isolate and describe individual states.

No, you said that now, in modern times, that means ideological closeness, not merely geographical. Somehow, human nature seems to have shifted. If it can shift like so in the transition to modern times, I don’t suppose this appeal to human nature could also shift in an imagined future. That it is not such an immutable quality - that even you have conceded as such by your own reply.

Goal post moving doesn’t sound too rigid now does it? Human nature seems to be awfully flexible in the right hands

You could start by joining your local Cuba solidarity campaign group online then attending their meetings. That’s a good babysteps easy and concrete thing you could try.

Best bet right now is join and be active in your trade unions and local community/hobby groups, with a view to finding like-minded people and making new like-minded people. From there, book clubs etc. can be organised with interested people, and the skeleton of the party form can be constructed. As you may have already found out, not all CPB comrades are reactionary, and it may be worth continuing to work in a limited capacity with them on local issues and in national pressure groups like the Palestine and Cuba solidarity campaign groups, Stop the War coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. There’s a lot of space for organising on socialist issues not as a member of a particular party in Britain, which does owe to the considerable effort put in by those same parties that do take reactionary lines. These ‘united front’ style entities exist precisely because the parties want to ensure that on specific issues people can be aligned without needing to agree on absolutely everything else.

Trotskyist cut out from the old IMT, or Socialist Appeal as their newspaper was called.

Could it be the complex interlocking and stifling nature of Capitalism, leading governments to defund education and drop support for poorer communities? No, it’s the technology that’s causing cognitive decline. Capitalists are fine actually and can stay as they are.