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Splish splash… why I've finally given in to wellies
I'm not sure why I've spent the past 25 years or so refusing to wear wellies. I think it stems from when I was a teenager and 'green wellies' were seen as deeply uncool. Ever since then I've resisted wearing them at every possible opportunity. Great for kids, I thought, but not for grown women who don't drive 4x4s and say 'yah' a lot.
But last week, as I struggled across the muddy rain-soaked quagmire that used to be the common, I was forced to admit defeat. This is largely because my Uggs finally gave up the ghost – they developed a split just above the heel which grew and grew until finally all the suede was split too. *sniff*
So I've done something I never thought I would do. I've just ordered these brilliant mock croc/snake black wellies from Next, and I also love the pink and orange ones and the Kidston-esque strawberry patterned ones too. £20 a pair! Bargain.
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Very cool. With the weather we have been having, I do not think it will be long before I succomb also! Mich x
Nice wellies! I've lived in mine for the last month, get some nice thick welly socks 🙂
Wellies rule OK? Seriously, I love wellies. just love them. Live in them out here, and some of them are sooo cute these days. although i warn you that the cute ones don't have the same durability as the standard ones – can tell you from experience, after a few months hard wear they will fall apart.
You rarely see me without wellies if I'm outside! I drive a 4×4 but I'm not a "Yah" girl!! CJ xx
When I was at uni we called them the "green wellie brigade"! I must admit I bought some about a month ago and quite like them but they're not as warm as i need when it gets way below freezing. They're great for Chicago snow though because there's so much salt everywhere it ruins everything else. I went for a rather subtle pair – black with a bit of gray and black harris tweed (or something) on them. The little guy has some with black skull heads on. Not really appropriate for a 6 year old but once he'd seen them there was no going back.
Oh yes wellies. If only I'd had a pair over the last few weeks. My Uggs are also knackered!
I love my wellies. Quick and easy to put on. They're green and I drive a 4×4. I don't say 'yah' much though. Not that I'm aware of anyway. Love those strawberry ones.
I love wellies…and when they wear out I plant petunias in them 🙂
Wellies are great for the UK mud – they wouldn't be warm enough here, though. I have been living in lovely shearling-lined snowboots from LL Bean. And I'm afraid I still remember sitting my mock A-levels with my feet freezing in wellies and tights (it was snowing)and the smell of wet rubber…..
couldn't do without wellies me!
My uggs have had their time and would love to wear wellies when its wet. But due to big calves (depressing) I cannot find a pair that will fit. Can anyone reccomend a good place to find one that will accomodate me =)
Fredah – I have big calves too, ssh don't tell anyone!
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Sly's supers are not OP'd. Maybe his level 1 is hard to dodge or interrupt, but it's also comparatively hard for Sly to build up to a level 1 compared to others like dante, raiden, kratos, etc...
Same goes for his level 3, Kratos can get to a level 3 much quicker than Sly can.
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Quickness to a level 3 is dependent on the player, just sayin. And I just want to compare to other fighting games. They allow unbreakable combos in games like Tekken tag ect. Also you can combo into ultimates to unleash maximum damage on the opponent. Taking that out would drastically change the game, just like if they tampered with comboing into level one it would make "Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale" no longer the same game. That is how big of a change they would have to make.
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it's also comparatively hard for Sly to build up to a level 1 compared to others like dante, raiden, kratos, etc...
Maybe when compared to those guys (I think Dante actually has a harder time than Sly), but Sly can rack up AP fairly quickly. Especially in the hands of a good player.
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So I took these #StareStyle photos during the summer and never around to posting but I say better late than never. This post was inspired by a shopping experience with my mom, my straight size cousin and my plus size best friend. We decided to take a day trip to a big outdoor mall in Columbus. I grew up going to this mall every August for back to school shopping and I hadn't been since I moved back to Ohio. I hoped it was as good as I remembered.
As much as I love shopping online now, there's something I still value about being able to try stuff on in person before purchasing. Growing up, the dressing room experience was always one I found frustrating because I hated the way clothes fit my plus size body but now I feel frustration shopping in person because there aren't enough options to fit the plus size body that I love.
When we got there, it seemed like there were hundreds of stores but our excitement quickly faded. While my cousin went in store after store, my best friend and I waited for her on a bench too small for our asses and took a million selfies because that seemed more fun than looking through racks of clothes that will never fit you. Midway through the trip, the only thing I had bought was a pair of hot pink socks. At one point, my mom yelled at the salesperson at Victoria's Secret for not carrying plus size and I picked out clothes for my cousin that I knew she would never wear.
Both my mom and my cousin felt bad that there were no stores with plus size but my best friend and I weren't even surprised. We decided to go to H&M since some of their stores carry plus. We figured it was worth a shot, but when we asked the salesperson where we could find plus size in the two-story H&M, he told us that they didn't carry it. We should look online. I didn't sit my ass in the car for two hours to shop online.
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I think you should really concentrate on training your tolerance to alcohol.
You use one word in there very well - "drastically". Your issue is that unless you ran a marathon a couple of months ago, which from your post I assume you didn't, you simply aren't trained to run a marathon. If 4-6 mile runs are what you're about at the moment you aren't really trained aerobically to run a Half-Marathon, though you are capable of completing one.
If it's your first marathon, you should expect to be out on training runs lasting about 4 hours, looking at your HM time. These should cover around 20 miles, and you should do a few of them, say five, separated by about a week for recovery, or maybe two weeks with slightly shorter long runs in between. Add to that a couple of weeks taper and you're looking at a minimum of two months, with you being up to 20 miles today. Drastically is definitely the word for the increase required. BUT, if you even attempt to get up to those levels now you will fatigue and very probably injure yourself.
A rule of thumb is to increase your training miles by 10% per week. As you can see, from where you are now, even from a 10 mile run, this won't give you safe time to build up to anywhere near what you need to know you will complete the marathon.
So, there is a dependence upon your general level of fitness and strength, and maybe you can consider just trotting/walking round on the day to complete the distance without any goal in mind except reaching the finish. I wouldn't do this personally, but if you have to do something (and you don't have years of alternative training - cycling, rowing, something - to back up your running) then I'd do this rather than push myself to become properly fit for the distance. The latter will lead to injury and no marathon.
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cassie, ignore ratzer, what he's saying is correct if you want to be optimally trained, but if you want to "get around" it's perfectly possible from where you are now. Have a look a Hal Higdon, whether you follow his plans or not doesn't matter but take a look at the long runs he gives for a novice over the time you have left. I did my first marathon using a hal Higdon schedule. From an aerobic base of 2 months followed by 4 months of nothing then following his plan for 4 months to the letter I did my first marathon, ran the whole way, in 4:17 which I was chuffed with. So with your base, go for it!
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Sierra Leone Football Association president, Isha Johansen, told the Sun on Sunday: "To have David Beckham involved in this campaign is massive for us and we are so grateful to him.
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I was overly energetic on the way home, but was feeling drowsy by the time the walk was over. Exhausted, I collapsed on my bed and fell asleep.
The next morning, I hurried to school as fast as I could. Martyn was sitting at his table in the library with another book when I arrived. "Do you know anything?" I asked him, throwing down my book bag and sitting in a chair.
Martyn put down his book. "I haven't seen him," he replied slowly.
"I'll look around," I said, standing suddenly and slinging my backpack over my shoulder before hurrying away, barely able to conceal by nervousness. The halls were filled once more with students. I tried to listen to what people were saying for clues, but the noise was far too loud to pick out more than a few words from specific conversations. "Excuse me," I said, pushing through a wall of people into the center of a large group of chattering students. "Do you know where I could find-"
"Lily!" came a voice from behind me. I recognized the voice and quickly turned to see Glen striding towards me through the crowd.
"Glen, you're here!" I exclaimed, delighted.
We had succeeded.
He enveloped me in a hug. "The strangest thing happened," he started. "I found a note in my pocket yesterday that was written in my handwriting, but I don't remember it at all." He looked into my eyes. "It talked about you," he told me.
My face burned. "Did it?" I asked weakly.
He linked his arm through mine. "I can't say I understand the note, but I'm going to do what it says. It made me realize something," he told me.
"And that was?" I prompted, still confused.
He grinned at me. "I'll tell you later," he said as we walked down the hall.
I'll start off by saying that there is too much to tell in a letter. You might not understand this, but take these words to heart.
Think of the car crash around this time last year. In a different timeline, you were sitting in the passenger seat and were killed in the impact. I'm writing this from a different future, one that I'm hoping to change.
I told the girl, Lily, that I needed to live because there was something that I had to do that could only be accomplished in the living world. This thing was that after you died, she was the one person who truly showed her melancholy and mourned you. She loved you. I needed to live because after being with her in this state for almost a year, I realized that I loved her too.
Don't waste this chance. Seize every opportunity and take advantage of them. You don't know when that all might end. I sure didn't.
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It is 16 years since a young Italian called Lanfranco Dettori established himself at the top of his profession with a Group One double on Festival day at Ascot. Shamshir, who won the Fillies' Mile, and Markofdistinction, in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, were both trained by another Italian, Luca Cumani, and between them, the jockey and trainer have kept the tricolore prominent at the meeting ever since.
Now they may have some backup. Marco Botti is not a familiar name to British racegoers yet, but like Dettori before him, he goes to Ascot this weekend with a serious chance to make his reputation on one of the most important afternoons of the Flat racing year. His unbeaten juvenile Sesmen, who was added to the Fillies' Mile at a cost of £20,000 earlier this week, will be his first runner in a Group One contest, and if breeding counts for anything, she will go to the start with every chance.
Sesmen's pedigree is the result of meticulous planning by Peter Ebdon, the former world snooker champion, who applies the same driven intensity to the business of breeding thoroughbreds that he does to building breaks. But it is Botti's own family tree that bears the closest inspection, since his name would be as familiar to an Italian racegoer as a Hills or a Dunlop in this country.
"My father [Alduino] and his brother [Giuseppe] train together in Italy," Botti says, "and they have been the champions of the country many, many times. They have won all of the Classics in Italy, and they will be champions again this year for sure, as they have more than 220 winners already."
Such is the status of the Botti family in Italian racing that Marco, who rode nearly 400 winners during a five-year career as a professional jockey, would have found it easy to start a training career in his native country. Instead, he chose to launch himself as a virtual unknown in the sink-or-swim surroundings of Newmarket.
He is becoming more familiar by the week, though, having saddled seven winners from 44 runners so far this season, a strike-rate of 16%. With victories at prices including 33-1, 20-1, 12-1 and 9-1, his level-stake profit is running at £48.25.
"Of course it would have been easier for me to go back to Italy," Botti says. "I don't think that it would have been any problem finding owners there, when in England, all new trainers struggle to find owners and good horses at the beginning.
"But I decided to give it a go here, to take a shot, and I can't complain so far. We have 22 horses here now, and we've had a Group Three winner. Winning a Group Three in England means much more to me than it would in Italy, as it is so much more difficult to win races here."
The decision to run Sesmen in Saturday's race owes something to Cumani, who employed Botti as a pupil assistant for two years when he first arrived in Britain.
He then moved on to spend a year with Ed Dunlop, and six months as head lad with Sheikh Mohammed's collection of blue bloods at Godolphin.
"I was with Luca Cumani when Falbrav had his special season, and his owner also has horses with my father, so I had known him for many years," he says. "He promised to send me a horse when I set up, and luckily, the horse was Sesmen.
"After she won at Goodwood, Luca rang me and said, Marco, you should have a look at the Ascot race and think about supplementing her. It would come at just the right time for her. The owner said that if I was happy with her, it would be worth taking a chance. It is a lot of money, but that's part of the game sometimes.
"We're running against the big yards and the best trainers so it's not going to be easy," Botti says. "But she travels so well and quickens so well, and if everything goes right, we will definitely aim her for the 1,000 Guineas.
"I've worked with Group One horses like Falbrav and Ouija Board in the past, so now I just hope that I've learned enough about how to train them."
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A regular at this track, Blue Maeve has three course wins from ten starts, as well as three seconds and a third. He's been in the form of his life this season, scoring on his last two visits and going close off his revised mark in two subsequent runs elsewhere. There seems to be plenty of pace drawn near the rail here and it is to be hoped that Silvestre De Sousa has the sense not to fight for an early lead.


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By Gabriel Kilpatrick
The world cannot wait. The Social Democratic Odyssey has fought many obstacles, accomplished many reforms, but is ill-equipped to deal with the problems of Cyclopean proportions that our society faces today. I must emphasize beforehand that this is not a young, rash diatribe against the proponents of Social democracy - nor is it a naïve display of utopian idealism with no bearing on reality - but simply an advocation of a mass social revolution; arguing that a reimplementation of Social democracy is simply not possible within the context of the advanced capitalist society we live in today.
So what precisely is the Polyphemus we face? This epic monster possesses one eye, and that is the eye of profit which thrusts all other social values to the periphery, inevitably leading to a myopic visual field. The acute crisis of capitalism has enveloped the modern world. From austerity in Europe, to massive inequality domestically, and declining GDP growth rates in Japan, capitalism is on an unsustainable path. Furthermore, the economic health of the nation is dismal. The crucial factor preventing this nation from sliding into the characteristic capitalist crisis of overproduction, as so famously developed by Marx, is the enormous, unprecedented expansion of household debt. Notably, average household debt is hovering around Great Depression levels, barring a slight decrease post-recession. This has allowed the consumer expenditures so vital to our economy's success to remain afloat. Indeed this urge to induce consumption has significant ramifications as well. Less household saving leads to less entrepreneurship, a key marker of stability in a market economy. Moreover, the American consumer has been bolstered by the presence of cheap commodities, with prices driven down due to foreign production in low labor-cost markets. This occurrence imparts its own detrimental consequences, specifically having pronounced effects on the American economy via the eroding manufacturing sector. Manufacturing has shrunk to around 22% of the economy, and this has caused decent paying, jobs with benefits to simply vanish. The signs are clear; we are living in a sick economy, the Ottoman in comparison to the youthful optimism of golden age capitalism.
Financially, the out of control schemes of fictitious capital have run amok, with its handlers less concerned with the outcome. This is yet again a result of the mature capitalism we live in; for why is money squandered on needless hedge fund manipulations or horded away in the Cayman Islands? Without going astray too much from the point of concern, Marxist economics provide an answer; because the rate of return on profit is much lower, thus capitalists seek to direct investment elsewhere than utilization as productive capital. They would pose questions like: Why should I waste surplus on educating antiquated workers. Why should I abide by costly OSHA regulations? Why should I face enormous productive costs when I can simply internalize my operations within the cozy world of Wall Street derivatives and financial speculation? Plus, if anything goes wrong, I can receive much-welcomed support from the bourgeois central banks! They have no qualms about propping up a failing system! Moreover, as much as Keynesian economists desire, they cannot mitigate the harmful effects of a spiraling boom-bust cycle. Indeed the evidence is to the contrary, with economists such as Larry Summers telling investors and corporations that we can potentially be undergoing a period of "secular stagnation." Stagnation of course is for the working class as profits of firms have been increasing as percentage of GDP for over the past decade. This is no recipe for success, and it is quite apparent with the burdening inequality and surging underemployment that capitalism faces a severe economic and social crisis. But I provide this analysis not to condemn capitalism, but rather to offer a critique of the solutions provided by the political philosophy of Social Democracy.
Social Democracy provided hope and relief to millions in the mid-20th century. However, it is important to keep in mind that it was a temporary stopgap solution, made possible by unique phenomena and coexisting with some very dark and unpleasant societal circumstances. In addition, Social Democracy is proving to be vastly ineffective in Europe today, and importing it along the lines of Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders is not a viable solution to today's problems.
So what exactly is the Circe and Calypso that the Social-democratic Odyssey faces? These constraints hinder its viability, and manifest themselves as social conditions, race relations, and simply the immutable laws of capitalist production, thereby effectively forming a multidimensional straight-jacket around the prospects of another "social-democratic golden-age", like that which was witnessed in the mid-20th century. Furthermore, the existence of unique economic and geopolitical phenomena of the golden age of capitalism amplified social democracy's effectiveness in assuaging capitalism's ill-effects.
First, the concomitant forces of racial oppression and social-democratic reforms, only serves ipso facto as a critique of social democracy's potential for a contemporary solution to 21st century problems. For instance, Social Security provisions of the New Deal era excluded a great many number of blacks who constituted the laboring and sharecropper class in the South. As Professor Juan F. Perea of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law states, in his stunning expose of the discriminatory undertones of the National Labor Relations Act:
Seemingly neutral on its face, the occupational exclusion of agricultural and domestic employees was well-understood to be a proxy for the exclusion of most black employees…. [and] indifferent to the negative effects on blacks, and appeasing Southern Democrats, Congress passed the SSA with a statutory exclusion of agricultural and domestic employees from both old-age and unemployment benefits.
It was not until the expansion of benefits in the 1960's that social security was fully attainable for poor blacks. Likewise, the issue is similar in terms of education. The flourishing public education system of the 1950's offered opportunities for millions of working class and poor children. However, its benefits were exclusively reserved for white children. Indeed a key visual representation of Jim Crow, that of small, one-room schoolhouses equipped with dilapidated textbooks for black children, was ubiquitous in the 1960's. The circumstances were not much different in the North and Midwest; educational inequality was equally replicated, notwithstanding the absence of overt racially repressive legal systems. As a NewPolitics magazine article on education stated:
"We must acknowledge the complicity of the education establishment, labor and teachers unions in allowing this gross inequality [in educational] to persist…. [It] did not create residential and school segregation, but accepting it was an unarticulated assumption in its post-World War II pact with capital."
Additionally, my own university, the City College of New York, nicknamed the "Harvard of the Proletariat", had a rich history of working class inclusion and opportunity. Nonetheless, in the same manner as grammar schools, City College was restricted to mostly Jewish, Italian, Eastern European and Irish students, unreflective of the black and brown Harlem community in which it is located. Furthermore, as time progressed, racial inclusion occurred; first at the grammar school level, with Brown vs Board of Education providing the impetus for a long struggle against segregated schools, and then subsequently student resistance at City College and throughout the CUNY system that led to the Open Admissions policy enacted in 1969, producing a massive demographic shift, with the number of minority students entering CUNY quadrupling from less than 1,700 in 1969 to around 8,000 in 1970.
However, capital's reaction was the same to these three reforms. Regression would ensue; thereupon limiting the efficacy of these beneficial reforms. Welfare state provisions were severely limited by the neoliberal reaction of the 1980's, with even sharper cuts in the following decade by President Clinton, proclaiming the end of "welfare as we know it". With regards to primary school education, Reagan began assaults on public education, devastating urban schools by reducing federal aid to inner cities by a whopping 16%. In the midst of the neoliberal coup that characterized the New York City financial crisis of the mid-70's, my campus, CCNY, acquiesced to state pressure and instituted tuition in 1976, ending the more than century old practice of a free university in New York. Overall, there seems an incompatibility of social-democratic reforms and racial egalitarianism in the history of the United States. Capital insists upon it. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers was a Marxist-Leninist trade union founded in Detroit in 1969. Black workers that comprised a sizable part of the auto industry were separated from the white UAW leadership. Whereas Michigan had become a union-dominated state, with the lure of progressive and social democratic reforms pacifying union leaderships, black workers were continuously discriminated and exploited to a much higher degree than their white counterparts. The ladder of opportunity, won through struggle, had failed to reach them. Although it did not exist for long, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers serves as an important lesson on the shortcomings of social democracy (or its American equivalent) in the 1950's.
Another characteristic associated with the golden-age of capitalism, that of the prevalence of liberal and social-democratic governments in the United States and Western Europe, is the existence of environmentally harmful practices that were critical in fostering a rising standard of living. Indeed this is a problem of capitalism itself; yet social democracy faces this peculiar challenge more so than any other prospective solution to capitalism by the nature of its coexistence with the powerful forces of capital. Perspectives have radically shifted since the 1950's, and this a necessary result of the growth-oriented, consumerist policies of liberals and social-democrats (as well as conservatives) in that time period. The 1950's was an era of unprecedented growth; advances in manufacturing of synthetics, widespread usage of automobiles, and reproduction of nuclear power sparked rapid increases in the standard of living. Demographic distribution shifted, propelled by the growth of the suburbs and construction of interstate highway systems. The ramifications of the rapid growth of the 1950's were unsettling. US per capita energy consumption increased exponentially, with oil leading as a main component of the new consumer economy. However, cities experienced high levels of smog, with Pittsburgh becoming blanketed in an iconic, thick, black smog. These cities were the epicenter of manufacturing and industry, and thus were heavily unionized, paying workers accordingly. On a broader scale, the economy of the 50's and 60's as structured in the US and Western Europe, provided enormous benefits as part of the social-democratic pact between labor and capital. This setup is heralded by figures like Michael Moore and others, who argue for the reimplementation of the social-democratic compact. However, those advocates are not cognizant of the ill-effects associated with that pact. That period of prosperity and unprecedented growth occurred because of an acceleration of environmentally destructive practices; social democracy and liberalism were ideal solutions that rested upon now- obsolete assumptions of regarding the economy's role in our planet's ecosystem. The circumstances of that time period are not ones we would wish to replicate today, as socialists desiring a more positive, sustainable future for humanity. Instead we must seek to replace the roots of environmental destruction, the profit motive, that narrow-minded, self-serving mechanism, and not unlike the operating systems of a computer, it must be exchanged with a more ecological and temperate system; social democracy would be no more than a mere aesthetically pleasing swap, and not the transformative overhaul we need.
As opposed to the problematic historical consequences of social democracy, there are future problems that harm prospects of its effective implementation in the 21st century. Indeed social democracy can do little to hinder the primary exigency of the capitalist mode of production; its temporally ubiquitous characteristic, that of the inexorable technological progress conditioned by the rigid laws of competition. The US is testament to this, with over 200,000 patents filed each year. While some may claim the positive effects of this phenomenon, in the technological spillovers that allow for the widespread use of new technologies; a contradiction occurs that stifles capitalist growth. Increasingly, automation encroaches upon jobs, both domestically and abroad. Automation alone is accountable for up to 60% of the job losses of the past 30 years. Despite the insistence of bourgeois economists, through propounding the "Luddite Fallacy" to reassure society, technology represents a significant challenge for the market economy in the 21st century. Estimates of over 45% of American jobs over the course of the next 20 years are endangered by machines offers a troublesome image, and constitute a genuine threat to social stability. It seems Marx's prophetic thoughts regarding the tempestuous nature of capitalism, as expressed in the Communist Manifesto, "Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation" (Chap. 1), are manifesting themselves once again in contemporary society. The astute question is, "What can social democracy accomplish to halt the hollowing out of the American workplace?" After fully assessing the dilemma of modern capitalism, one can ascertain that only socialism, in abolishing the contradictory aspects of capitalist production, can effectively utilize the liberatory potential of emerging technologies in a stable and advantageous manner.
Furthermore, there exists other macroeconomic consequences of progressive technological advancement besides unemployment. There develops increasingly short, yet economically devastating, recessions as technology advances forward that even policy makers with the most ideal intentions can do little to avert. Theoretically, this subtle obstacle arises from the simple distinction between constant, or fixed, and variable capital. The marked difference between manufacturing in Marx's time and manufacturing today is that the gilded-age factories were labor intensive (with very low rates of exploitation), and today's factories are capital intensive (with higher rates of exploitation). As Marx demonstrated, this leads to increasingly larger and large outlays on fixed capital to replace the wear and tear (depreciation) on machinery. And according to economic law, investment is a key determinant of the business cycle; increasing or decreasing in response to several variables. But yet while there are continously quicker durations of investment on depreciating capital, thus ensuring the vitality of machinery, there also exists the more rapid cycles of recession and expansion as consequence. Essentially, the long depressions that scarred the late 19th and early 20th century are now shortened. This crucial point was elaborated upon by Ernest Mandel, in explaining the unique developments of neo-capitalism in his Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory . One can observe its effects with the bursting "Dot-Com bubble" of the 2000-2001. This subtle, yet damaging attribute of modern capitalism presents another problem for social democracy (as well as capitalism in general). For how can one expect to "tame" the excesses of the capitalist economy if there exist increasingly brief yet destabilizing, unpredictable periods of recession? Unraveling chaos would ensue before state planners can anticipate.
Mandel and the other Marxist analysts of neo-capitalism in the mid-20th century observed another striking feature of American and European capitalism, that of the existence of massive military budgets. Procurement of armaments and weapons development composed a huge part of government spending. Moreover, it provided substantial benefits to local economies that accommodated these large military bases and vast defense industrial complexes. Prominent examples include the Virginian-DC metropolitan area, home to major military installations and defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin. Equally important, is the other major effect that this large investment on defense spending has. Technological progress, as illustrated by Mandel with the case of World War II innovations, is greatly reliant upon defense spending. The neoclassical growth theory popular in Mandel's time emphasized the random periods of rapid technological development that produce rapid growth. While his contemporary growth theorists did not emphasize causes, Mandel points out that growth, a consequence of technological development, was contingent upon the heavy military research and development expenditures of World War II and subsequently the Cold War. Particularly, this presents another major roadblock to the effectiveness of social democracy. Many liberal and social democratic reformers, as do socialists, intend on cutting bloated military budgets, and justifiably so, as defense expenditures lessen the opportunity for poverty alleviation and finance global American hegemony. However, as has been illustrated, there are ill-effects to this policy if continued for a substantial period of time. What bulk of technological research will have to be co-opted by the private sector? In those circumstances, technology would be subjected to conspicuous bourgeois demands of profitability and cost-reduction. There would be a significant reduction in technological innovation. In response, one can propose that the new social-democratic regimes invest heavily in technological research, but that would yield new problems in increasingly exorbitant budgets, and practical political problems that all major reformist parties face. In summary, technology as exists under capitalism constitutes a major impediment to social-democracy.
The issue of social democracy is of utmost importance for organizations like DSA. Our political orientation and strategy, with all the complexities and nuances associated with it form a central loci, a central structure of our broader Panopticon that conditions the rest of our organizing and activism. The potential DSA has, in this particular sociopolitical environment of crisis capitalism, by adopting a revolutionary program, and coupled our democratic structure and rational demeanor, is enormous. DSA's transformation can precipitate sweeping social transformations in today's political landscape. There are substantial resources we could save by manner of abandoning support for democrats, leaving the Socialist International and its fruitless social-democratic odyssey, and thereby freeing up resources for critical revolutionary action. Thus, this is why I believe the cogent decision for us as an organization, during this important time of self-reflection, is to be inflicted with a revolutionary passion, for which the possibilities provided by a revolutionary socialism know no bounds. The Social Democratic Odyssey is over.
Let us not hesitate. Let's cross the Rubicon.
Gabriel Kilpatrick is a YDS Leader at CCNY YDS and a member of the New York City DSA chapter.
As to revolutionary socialism — I'll just say that for any mature Marxist, revolutionary politics are primarily about aims and only secondarily about means.
I agree with your criticisms of social democracy but not that the Odyssey is over. Social democracy is still the most humane system leftists have been able to engineer in most parts of the world. No doubt "full democratic socialism" would be better, but I think it's not an exaggeration to say that social democrats and social democracy save lives. Sure, social democracy won't resolve the contradictions of capitalism, but doesn't mean that revolutionary change must come eventually regardless of whether or not we pursue a social democratic program? Until then, we have two options: 1.) establishing social democracy at the level of government, i.e. gradual reform of capitalism, and 2.) practicing libertarian socialism at the grassroots, community organizing level, i.e. gradual revolution from below. I would like DSA to embody both of these ethics, as also described by Jared Abbott and Joseph Schwartz, here: http://www.dsausa.org/a_socialist_strategy_for_the_21st_century.
The only other socialist organization in the US that sort of appeals to me is Socialist Alternative, but I can't bring myself to associate with them for the following reasons: 1.) their declared affiliation with Trotskyism and the CWI, which oddly seems both dogmatic and irrelevant given their platform, 2.) their call to nationalize the top 500 corporations, which is a political non-starter, and especially 3.) their fatuous and aggressive visual propaganda, which IMO mars the image of an otherwise sympathetic organization, and w/r/t which I'll quote Adam Smith at length:
"There are some passions of which the expressions excite no sort of sympathy, but before we are acquainted with what gave occasion to them, serve rather to disgust and provoke us against them. The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies. As we are unacquainted with his provocation, we cannot bring his case home to ourselves, nor conceive any thing like the passions which it excites. But we plainly see what is the situation of those with whom he is angry, and to what violence they may be exposed from so enraged an adversary. We readily, therefore, sympathize with their fear or resentment, and are immediately disposed to take part against the man from whom they appear to be in so much danger.
"If the very appearances of grief and joy inspire us with some degree of the like emotions, it is because they suggest to us the general idea of some good or bad fortune that has befallen the person in whom we observe them: and in these passions this is sufficient to have some little influence upon us. The effects of grief and joy terminate in the person who feels those emotions, of which the expressions do not, like those of resentment, suggest to us the idea of any other person for whom we are concerned, and whose interests are opposite to his. The general idea of good or bad fortune, therefore, creates some concern for the person who has met with it, but the general idea of provocation excites no sympathy with the anger of the man who has received it. Nature, it seems, teaches us to be more averse to enter into this passion, and, till informed of its cause, to be disposed rather to take part against it."
DSA's polite and, as you said, "rational demeanor" is what sets it apart from SA, from an outsider's point of view. I think this is good for the organization's image and will help draw people into the democratic socialist tent. At the same time, SA's two major successes are perhaps worth emulating, namely 1.) organizing the single-issue campaign 15 Now and 2.) electing Kshama Sawant in Seattle. As for the Socialist International, it's sort of appealing as an international organization of successful "socialist" parties, but at the same time I'm pretty unimpressed with how SI parties like Labour in the UK, le parti socialiste in France, and the New Democratic Party in Canada all seem to cater to a pro-austerity opposition.
In closing I say yes, let's work for revolutionary socialism, but we should also take successes wherever we can get them, even if it's just helping elect a progressive Democrat when there's no other electoral alternative. I think actions like that matter and don't cost as much energy as critics claim, even if social democracy itself is ultimately a fool's errand and a colossal failure. Why not squeeze whatever advantage you can out of a failing system? But maybe you're right. Maybe we should devote all our energy instead to hastening its collapse. But I think if we do that we must accept the moral consequences of giving up on reform in the present tense and letting the political right have their way with the poor and working class for now. As Spinoza once wrote in a letter to a friend, "In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth." The truth is obvious, as you have put it quite well, but what we should do about it is not. In the end, though, I if I had to pick a side, I'd probably be in your camp, the revolutionary socialist camp.
P.S. The Bernie campaign also seems to embody both forms of socialist strategy. The official campaign itself is quite traditional apart from its rejection of corporate donations and super PAC collusion, but there's also the grassroots People for Bernie, of which Maria Svart of DSA and Betsy Avila of YDS are members, and which also includes a bunch of OWS people. Whatever happens, I hope this coalition continues and grows beyond the 2016 election and leads to more revolutionary politics.


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[quote:MoreAboutTunnelVision:MV84MTQ3MzlfMzQ2MTEzMTNfMjUzMEE2Mzk=] [quote:Menow 1394150:MV84MTQ3MzlfMzQ1ODg2NDRfMzY2NDVBNjE=] PS: The people I knew who built the retreat in the national forest to save them from "Planet X" were highly educated and intelligent- still they bought into it. I think that may have been where I first heard about Nancy and the "Zetas". Interestingly, those people I knew were also doing a sort of "channeling" activity, and whatever they were communicating with was backing up the basic PX story. I have said, many times, that I believe Nancy is "channeling", whatever that might be, technically. I know most people think that sort of thing is always faked, but I have known too many people, up close and personal, who have been involved in doing that sort of thing and I know they were not intentionally "faking" it. I can't say I understand what is really going on, but I do believe Nancy is getting input from whatever "Zetas" is. [/quote] That is interesting. I would agree about the claim that also "highly educated people" aren't excempt from falling for Nancy's BS... In fact I made the same observation among the Moderators: Some are very smart but when it comes to ZetaTalk they avoid any conflicts with logic. Also, I don't know how to describe it but I noticed that believers often slowly start to wildly connect sensations. For example: They deal the whole day with PX/PS-related topics which leads them to dream about it - (logically because their brain deals with it). After they dreamed something PS-related they start assuming that their dreams must have had a particular reason, a purpose or even visionary-aspects because it seemingly fits to their [u]conscious[/u] belief. Another Example: Someone feels rather uneasy, having headaches etc... Now, since having headaches or "simply having a bad day" is not considered realistic, they assume it must be the Magnetosphere or some other hidden influence. Another Example: Someone had a weird sensation, or just a "bare hunch" about something... It is assumed that this hunch has a particular reason that usally stays in accordance with their belief. Like: [i]"Feeling uneasy?" - "Something big must be pending"... [/i] Im sure there is a psychological "term" to describe this behaviour... however it shows how far these people draw relations between stuff that really isn't connected at all. Regarding Channeling, in my mind this "channeling" could be described by the same mechanisms. I.e. someone deals so much with the desire (channeling) that the unconscious-mind starts to adapt and manifest the desired way. That said, I'd be interested to hear how these "channeled information" appeared to you and wether they contained anything factual or something that hinted they aren't just made-up-information by their minds.? Thanks. [quote:Anonymous Coward 21075357:MV84MTQ3MzlfMzQ1NjUzNzVfMjFERjlENjM=] [quote:Truther 27192679:MV84MTQ3MzlfMzQzMjM0NzVfMjIyMjkxRTc=] Even earthchanges ning - a not very popular page - has more members now than crazy Nancy`s poleshit/lenseshift ning. [/quote] Is this Lothar speaking? If so, this is just sour grapes you were suspended from earthchanges ning for cause. Why, it was a good site in your eyes, until you were suspended. You said so yourself on your website, remember? In fact, the blog that outlined why you were ousted could be reposted so everyone could be reminded of the truth. You're still a Nancyphile, aren't you? You're still using her tactics and talking just like her, trying to influence opinion. The few who do that have agendas. Nobody else cares. [/quote] First, Welcome! :) Second, Why do you think Lothar is a Nancyphile? I really dont see any rational reason to assume this... in fact the way his site currently looks, his character and the way he talked about her indicated he's rather "Nancyphob"? I mean, it looks he's looking for his answers elsewhere but I dont see him supporting Nancy anywhere... (except some info's about the PX-theory).. Just my opinion. Anway, glad to have you here. [quote:Circuit Breaker:MV84MTQ3MzlfMzQ2MDU1ODFfQUM3M0JFMDk=] I wonder if the 2012 doomsayers are getting worried yet. After all, we're only a month away from December 21 and there's no sign of apocalypse. If doom were coming in the form of some galactic alignment or passing through the center of some spacial anomaly as some have predicted, then we would be feeling the affects of that already. [/quote] I wonder about that aswell and I think Yes - they are getting (increasingly) worried, impatient. 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