I search for an anti-socialist who understands economics, but only find echoes pretending to be minds.
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28 Dec 2025
Understanding Market Socialism 101...
My experience is that anti-socialists are stuck in the 1970s: arguing against rationing bread & nationalisation. None of this is proposed, but the caricature is far easier than engaging with contemporary debates over ownership.
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This Labour government will stand out as the only one which adopted economic irrationality so religiously. Military burden generates significant economic harm, from opportunity costs to crowding-out.
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The first duty of any government is to keep our country safe.
That's why we're delivering the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.
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I asked ChatGPT to review @reformparty_uk's online presence. Celebrating #SocialistSunday, it went all Marxist on me...
"A populist rebranding of class antagonism that redirects working-class discontent away from capital and towards cultural scapegoats"
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"Lord Mandelson's final public service may be this: ensuring that Wes Streeting's damp little leadership fantasies never crawl beyond the Westminster petri dish"
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Good Friday isn't just about suffering. It's about power. The crucifixion was state violence against a radical who stood with the poor & challenged hierarchy. The cross still disrupts unjust systems: calling for solidarity, redistribution & justice. #GoodFridayReflection
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Britain's empire died slowly, wrapped in tweed & denial. The US is going down in a rush: orange, vulgar & wheeled out of Florida like a demented Caesar...
#America1st #MAGA
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The Embittered Economist retweeted
"Israel is the Jimmy Savile of nation states"
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The Embittered Economist retweeted
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It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us.
When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens.
Join us - join.greenparty.org.uk
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Climate crisis.
Cost-of-living crisis.
War again & again.
But sure - more capitalism.
More profit.
More deregulation.
More billionaires.
More weapons.
Yet socialism is the unrealistic idea.
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Try a thought experiment. Put the school in Bristol.
Print the headline: 153 dead after a strike hits a British school. The nation would freeze.
But the school is in Iran. So the headline passes quietly. The outrage fades quickly. The grief travels poorly. Children have borders.
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The Embittered Economist retweeted
Feb 28
The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/โฆ
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But he didn't get rid of him for his anti-Labour values. Labour is now dead and Corbyn has also led on the effective demise of Your Party. Its in these moments that we see if they care about us, or their powerbase.
Feb 4
Under my leadership of the Labour Party, Peter Mandelson had no role, no influence and no part to play, because I do not trust the man and I do not believe the man.
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@reformparty_uk is what happens when right-wing economics fails the market test under @UKLabour and the @Conservatives.
It gets rebranded. Same product. New label. Harder edge. Political economy as a marketing strategy...
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Democratic socialism = "I can't define social democracy"
State socialism = "I want to avoid how capitalism and interventionism go hand in hand"
Utopian socialism = "I like homemade bread"
Anti-socialism = "This is all the same thing and it's 1984"
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Starmer meets the wreckage of international law with Wormtongue's whisper and Chamberlain's sleep...
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"Stop the Boats. Arrest the grannies. Ignore international law". One nation, one story, one way to belong - the UK right's flat earth.
But society isn't flat - it's fractured. Solidarity is how those fractures become power. #SocialistSunday
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In the coming hours and days there will be a lot of disinformation and misinformation regarding Venezuela.
We recommend the following for accurate news and analysis: @venanalysis @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews @sov_media
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This is the political economy of decline in its rawest form: a waning hegemon lashing out because it can no longer rule through economic gravity alone. When accumulation stalls and legitimacy evaporates, violence becomes the last instrument of authority.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration has begun an illegal bombing campaign of Caracas, Venezuela, striking various parts of the city.
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Calling basic left political economy 'left populism' only makes sense after a long march to the right. When proposals to tackle inequality, raise wages and broaden ownership are recast as extremism, 'balance' becomes a way of avoiding the economics altogether.
31 Dec 2025
The government is being squeezed between twin populisms of the right and of the left.
We need to confront both, and to deliver bold change that improves lives and tackles inequality.
Good to speak to Heather Stewart at the Guardian about our work at @thefabians (link below).
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The Embittered Economist retweeted
Jan 1
In 2026, let's build a socialist alternative to privatisation, inequality & war.
@jeremycorbyn on the year ahead for Your Party โ
ALT Your Party graphic with New Year's Message from Jeremy Corby: The start of a new year is a time to look ahead with optimism. 2026 will be the year we demonstrate a radical, socialist alternative to the right-wing demagogues and establishment mouthpieces who dominated 2025. It will be the year we show there is an alternative to the grotesque inequality that blights our country: higher wages for the many through strong trade unions, and higher taxes on the few hoarding all the money. There is an alternative to the housing crisis: more social housing and rent controls so young people donโt spend half their wages subsidising landlords. There is an alternative to the demonisation of those in need of help: a welfare system that doesnโt stigmatise and that allows people with disabilities to live with dignity. Here are my three wishes for 2026: 1) For the voice of communities to come through loud and clear in the elections in May. Your Party will back socialist and community independents
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28 Dec 2025
Understanding Market Socialism 101...
My experience is that anti-socialists are stuck in the 1970s: arguing against rationing bread & nationalisation. None of this is proposed, but the caricature is far easier than engaging with contemporary debates over ownership.
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28 Dec 2025
Cue the outrage about expropriation. Again, none. This is about property rights, not seizures. Workers gain legally defined rights to organise, access finance, and buy in under reformed rules of transfer. Nothing here resembles confiscation, despite the theatrics.
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28 Dec 2025
Once the nostalgia and hysteria are removed, the issue is mundane: do British markets function better when ownership is widened beyond incumbents and inheritance, or not?
The economics points firmly to extension - which is precisely the rational core of socialism.
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