Thomas Bell, born on this day in 1882, was a Scottish socialist politician, trade unionist, and a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He said: "The Communist Party is nothing if it is not a party of realism".
Bell also worked as an editor for the Communist Party's magazine "Communist Review" and co-founded the Socialist Labour Party.
Thomas Bell was born in Parkhead, Glasgow to an irregularly employed stonemason and a mother who worked at home spinning cotton and silk. While working at a bottling shop, Bell became interested in atheism and labor politics, reading rationalist works by Ernst Haeckel and Thomas Huxley, as well as texts on evolution by Charles Darwin.
Bell joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1900, but would participate in more radical parties as his politics matured, including the Marxist Social Democratic Party and, later, the Socialist Labour Party.
In 1919, Bell was elected President of the Associated Ironmoulders, Secretary of the SLP and editor of its newspaper, "The Socialist". He sat on a unity committee, intending to negotiate for a single communist party with leaders of the British Socialist Party, Workers Socialist Federation and other socialist groups, but their proposals were repudiated by the SLP.
Resigning as Secretary, Bell helped found the Communist Unity Group, which became an original constituent of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
"The theory of getting a Labour government in order to get communism is as stilted as the Kautskyan idea that Russia should go through period of capitalist development under the democratic bourgeois institutions in preference to the Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' dictatorship."
- Thomas Bell
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Its insane to me that in 2020 there were massive protests against the police all across the US for a full summer, and then in 2022 Roe v Wade got overturned and absolutely nothing at all happened. People stopped talking about it within weeks.
This is what happens when the main political opposition is the democrat party rather than angry working class people who burn down precincts
Extremely perturbed that the rail unions shitcanned their own strike for nothing. The union should crucify their leadership and weld them to the front of a freight train mad max style.
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there’s literally no other option besides: :stalin-smokin:
There’s a user on Reddit named u/VeganStruggleSession who’s posting some really reactionary stuff on r/ShitHexbearSays (to vladdy’s credit, some of it is cleaned up).
Just wanted to point out that there is indeed a contingent of reactionaries agitating here and using the vegan struggle session as a wedge issue. It’s an important debate. I’d just withhold judgement on anyone who’s trying to frame things as “us vs them” in those struggles that keep happening
:silver-legion:
pronouns were a wedge issue. downbears were a wedge issue. outdoor cats were a wedge issue.
pumpkin spice lattes were the only thing that brought this community together.
"And then the sixth, seventh, and eighth internationale split over the question of outdoor cats"
People who get banned from the vegan sub for posting reactionary content sometimes make new accounts that pretend to be vegans for a day then start spamming slurs. Don't let them cloud your judgement on veganism.
I’m frankly baffled that anyone’s judgement on veganism has been swayed one way or the other by anything other than the theory posts
smdh imagine posting anything in the vegan sub other than things like "carnists get the wall"
We take a lot of our inspiration from :john-brown: when it comes to animal rights. I'd go into it, but I think getting heated about veganism in the megathread is frowned upon.
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Damn, even I have to say "Log Off" to this one.
About twice per year I'll have a day where I don't bring lunch, get really hungry, and decide to go get the impossible whopper from the local bk because I've forgotten just how disgusting fast food is. Then I am reminded for the next 6 months or so.
:morshupls:
me at work explaining why I've made no progress at my current task in three days
It's actually because of watching youtube and playing video games but I think they at least kinda believed my "unforeseen challenges" spiel
When I don't want to do anything I just claim that my computer was acting up and they have no choice but to believe me because the kernel extensions their security team churns out actually fucking suck ass to the point where I can't put the computer to sleep without triggering a kernel panic lol
BOYS :meow-bounce: BOYS :meow-bounce: BOYS :meow-bounce: BOOOOYS
67 upbears, but 362 replies.
Highly concerning.
There is a reason the servers were reset minutes ago.
What will happen if our posters cannot listen to one another, and instead descend into a death spiral of subpar trolling?
Direct intervention from the highest echelons of the modteam will not look pretty.
-FEW
oh my god it rhymes with Q.... [Eric_Wareheim_Mind_Explosion_Chefs_Kiss.gifv]
HOLY SHIT I RAN INTO THE WARMONGERER AGAIN, HE’S STILL HERE
BRO’S FACE DARKENED :michael-laugh:
was wearing the fishing hat today so my smug-ass nod was more comical
if it wouldn't immediately dox my college I would blast this mfs name right the fuck now for our brave posters to fuck with him :sicko-wistful:
It's hard to fabricate the high I'm feelin rn, but if the feds could fabricate WMDs who knows what posters could do :lea-smug:
Redditors: China is a totalitarian hellhole
Chinese people: While our government has issues, we’ve seen great increases in development, security, and wealth.
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Expats in China: China is a great place to live.
Redditors: You’re brainwashed too!
Online communities of expats show the pros and cons of living in China but somehow they’ve been successfully brainwashed in 2 years by evil Chinese government.
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Just had a coworker tell me they've, "been praying for me."
This one of the gravest insults that a Christian fundamentalist can make. I have no idea what I've done, but I'm curious. They barely know me. Not sure how to handle this..
I honestly thought the little mermaid was set in the Caribbean with all the tropical fish, pirate ships and Jamaican crabs.
WAS IT NOT?????? Then where the hell is it? In the Baltic sea??
Denmark, I think, so Øresund or Kattegatt
Edit: I went to read the wiki summary for the original H.C. Andersen story, and the last part is kinda wild ngl with becoming a earthbound air spirit and all.
Damn, I really wasn't far off. For the HC Andersen story Denmark makes sense, but the Disney movie definitely takes place in the Caribbean, right?
Edit: Nope Disney is Baltic too. This makes no sense to me, my worldview is ruined. Also yeah the original is crazy, there are huge queer undertones to the story too.
There's a huge octopus monster specifically drawn after a drag queen who just wants a girls' voice, I feeling I know all too well lol
Damn right Ursula did nothing wrong, helped Ariel with her transition tremendously while also sparing her from the trouble of voice training