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Chris Harman dies in Cairo

Bollocks. Don't pretend they couldn't do more.

I don't know anything about the details and neither do you. I'm not going to be drawn into defending them because even if I was so inclined these boards are irrelevant to any political life that exists outside of the fantasies of half the posters on here. Fantasy politics - how fucking sad is that? If you can't get a shag, at least download some porn like normal people.
 
I don't know anything about the details and neither do you.

I know that Nutty Shardman died on 6th November and that a begging letter (email) has been doing the rounds, claiming that the money has to be raised in order to bring the body home.

It is now almost two weeks since the death, no funeral has been announced by the Social Workers yet and I'm told that the email is still doing the rounds. It is fair to infer that not enough money has been raised yet. I hope the Egyptian mortuary is not charging by the hour or day.

I'm not going to be drawn into defending them...

You mean you now prefer to withdraw from your attempts to defend the Social Workers CC. That seems sensible.

Fantasy politics - how fucking sad is that?

It's just a message board - though, unlike most message boards, there is this little corner here where many people know who Nutty Shardman was. Most people, obviously, neither know nor care.
 
Harman learned that politics is organisation. Organisational self-promotion is everything. “The party” must be built by any politics that serve that end. Theory is rationalisation, not science and prescription. As Tony Cliff would openly say on the leading committees — in my hearing on the National Committee — “tactics contradict principles”.

A political principle is a principle, but an organisation advantage is tangible and far more useful, and therefore more important. For Tony Cliff, as the dominant figure, this meant that he could say and do what he liked in pursuit of an organisational advantage. For such as Chris Harman, it meant assuming “the servility of a theoretician” (Lenin’s expression) vis-a-vis the “party” apparatus.
Ahhh .... in other words, it's now a cult.

How else to think of a "left party" that beats up on prostitutes and other "sex criminals" while cosying up to religiously motivated reactionary beared weirdos?

If there's votes in it, that is.

<spits>
 
In fairness, I don't think Belboid is quite as nefandous as Pickman's.
:hmm:
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I'm pretty certain I'd rather sink a pint with Pickman's actually. To my mind, there's no doubt he would be the more entertaining, and indeed credible, raconteur.
 
:hmm:I'm pretty certain I'd rather sink a pint with Pickman's actually. To my mind, there's no doubt he would be the more entertaining, and indeed credible, raconteur.

It's funny you should say that. Two different people have told me, quite unsolicited, that he and I would get along well irl.

Beats me I must say, because he is a bald-headed poshboy teetotaller, in each of which respects he is my diametrical opposite. But who knows?
 
A small group of relatives and disciples reached Cairo and rolled away the stone, but the tomb was empty. Truly He is the Chris!
 
Well they had his funeral a few weeks ago so yep I guess so.

they had a commemoration a few weeks ago, not a funeral. the funeral was delayed pending the return of harmans body, despite an online appeal for cash to bring him home no sign as yet of the return of britains premier marxist cadavour
 
Rumour has it that the body of the Chris was left rotting in Egypt and that in the coffin at Golders Green Crem was a member of the 'Left Platform', drugged, bound and gagged! Following incineration, who can tell?
 
Rumour has it that the body of the Chris was left rotting in Egypt and that in the coffin at Golders Green Crem was a member of the 'Left Platform', drugged, bound and gagged! Following incineration, who can tell?

So they did a 'Colonel Penkovsky' on someone, did they?

Taken from Wikipedia:

Penkovsky's fate

'GRU agent Vladimir Rezun, known for his controversial books produced under the pseudonym "Viktor Suvorov" following his defection from the Soviet Union, alleges in his book Aquarium to have been shown a black and white GRU film where Penkovsky is shown bound to a board with a piano wire and 'cremated alive'. This graphic account has him slowly fed into a furnace alive, feet first, as other officers are made to watch, in a warning to potential traitors.'
 
Rumour has it that the body of the Chris was left rotting in Egypt and that in the coffin at Golders Green Crem was a member of the 'Left Platform', drugged, bound and gagged! Following incineration, who can tell?

Maybe it was John Rees and the replaced him with an imposer? :hmm:
 
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