Do They Mean Us? #21

On this day of days, a nice excuse to post this funny cartoon from the cheeky bastards over at Great Moments in Leftism:

The one failing is that they decided to make the archetypal SPGBer look a bit too much like leading Millie Peter Taaffe. That can't be right.

Go back. We fucked up everything.

"Go back. We fucked up everything."?

Now that's campaign slogan I can really get behind.

Via LL over on Facebook.

It's a fair question

The only problem with capitalism is that the workers keep getting under the feet of the wealth creators.

Hat tip to the 'I Acknowledge Class War Exists' page over at Facebook.

'It's looking good . . . .'

Hat tip to Richard M over at Facebook.

Don't forget to click to enlarge . . . as the blogger said to the reader of the blog.

Never let it be said that this blog misses out in the opportunity in signposting Noam Chomsky appearing in a cartoon strip.

No jokes about the real life Chomsky being a cartoon character, please. That gibe is for the self-satisfied over at Harry's Place.

I just like to spot *cough* public intellectuals in the most unlikeliest of places. It also takes me back to the good old days of avidly reading Roy and the Rovers every week, and the genuine thrill of that storyline where A J Ayer turned up in the pages of the comic face to face with Roy Race. Something about Ayer being the leader of a Spurs hooligan gang who decided to invade the pitch in a FA Cup sixth round replay to try and get the game abandoned after Melchester Rovers went 3-1 up with five minutes to go. I can't remember how it resolved itself - mind, it was a storyline from 30 years ago - but I suspect that 'Blackie' Gray despatched Ayer with a kick to the nether regions and the rest of the Spurs hooligan crew melted back into the terraces. That's how those cliffhangers usually got wrapped up if memory serves me right. If you see the particular issue on eBay, drop me a line. I'd like to read it again

The Chomsky cartoon? From the pen of Mitch Clem. His cartoon strips aren't really that political which it makes it all the funnier when Chomsky pops in from an alternate universe to make a guest appearance as this week's curmudgeon.

Reaga-comics

Via On A Raised Beach blog:

Departs when 50% + 1 of the seats are filled

Via Ragged Trousered Philanthropist blog:

As someone once said, "A picture is worth a thousand words", but here's a few thousand words anyway:

The case for and against reformism

Do Anything Now?

Is protest really enough?

What about the meantime?

When Chomsky met Hitchens

Via Postmodern Haircut

Also check out:

The Chomsky/Nader smackdown.

The future's so bright, Noam has to wear his bifocals.

Chomsky uses Wordpress.

Chomsky moonlighting.

Chomsky is board with the struggle.

Phil Evans - Political Cartoonist

I'm forever getting hits on the blog from people searching for info on the brilliant political cartoonist, Phil Evans, but because of my novice blogging skills at the time they never get a taste of Evans's work, just the blurb about his work from this old post.

Therefore, to make amends, I thought I'd repost an example of his work on the blog again - with the appropriate post title this time - to ensure that future Phil-Evans-Seekers don't miss out.

I'm good like that.

Activity in Captivity

February 2008 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Democracy matters

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Emission control we have a problem

Cooking the Books #1 Ever heard of tryvertising?

Cooking the Books #2 The price of bread

Material World Nuclear weapons are still here.

Greasy Pole The mass debaters

50 Years Ago Old familiar faces

Main Articles

Work as it is (and could be) Work is a "four-letter word" today under capitalism, but our view of it might change in a society where it is solely a means of improving the quality of our lives.

Profit laundering what has justice got to do with it?? "Tax Havens Cause Poverty" proclaims the home page of the Tax Justice Network. No, they don't. The profit system does.

Social responsibility and corporations Can corporations be trusted, or even expected, to have any social responsibility?

Thicker than water/Obituary of a capitalist The Stagecoach story: a lesson in the random nature of business success.

Capitalism Chinese-style Chinese capitalism is becoming less and less different from the kind found in the West.

The last time the police went on strike What we said in 1919 about the police unrest and strikes of that time. Ironically today's demonstrations are organised by the Police Federation, the company union set up in 1919 to stop a real union being organised.

Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon Strip

Letters, Reviews & Meetings

Letter To The Editor: Social Improvement?

Book Reviews: 'Multi-nationals on trial' by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer; 'Selling Olga' by Louisa Waugh; 'Economics transformed' by Robert Albritton;'Bronterre O'Brien and the Chartist Uprisings of 1839' by David Black

Socialist Party Meetings: West London & Manchester:

Voice From The Back

Ten Wasted Years; No Immigration Problem; This Is Communism?; Chinese Booming Death Rate; Prophets And Profits; Progressing Backwards; Poor And Desperate

January Socialist Standard 2008: Democracy Gets A Re-tread

January 2008 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Why the Green Party is wrong

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Why the minus 16.3 percent happy face?

Cooking the Books #1 Dreaming of a super cycle

Cooking the Books #2 Bottom line building

Material World Iran in the crosshairs

Greasy Pole Money, Money, Money...

50 Years Ago Upset in Accra: Dr. Nkrumah upsets his friends

Main Articles

Jack London’s The Iron Heel London’s widely read book of this title was published a hundred years ago. But how realistic was it and how much of a socialist was Jack London?

And they call this Democracy? “It’s a truism, but one that needs to be constantly stressed, that capitalism and democracy are ultimately quite incompatible.” (Noam Chomsky).

The nature of human nature The cultural anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said that what cultural anthropologists were really interested in was “the nature of human nature”. So what do they think it is?

“Socialism is Illogical and Irrational” Free-market capitalism, left to its own chaotic and predatory devices would self-destruct in very short order.

The thoughts of Premier Brown (thirty years ago) In 1975 Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland, a collection of articles by leftwing Labour activists.

The trouble with gods Those fortunate enough to live in relatively secularized societies should not underestimate global power of religion

What they did to Thomas Hardy The writer Thomas Hardy died, eighty years ago, in January 1928. Here’s what we said at the time.

Simon the Sociobiologist Cartoon strip

Letters, Reviews, Obituary & Meetings

Letters to the Editor: 'Silly Ceremony'

Book Reviews: 'Chew On This' by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson; 'All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal' Edited by Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts; 'The Class War Radical History Tour of Notting Hill' by Tom Vague

Obituary: Edmund Grant

Socialist Party Meetings: Birmingham, Central London, Manchester, Norwich, Salisbury & West London

Voice From The Back

Land of the Free; Death in a Harsh Society; Heiress on the Run; Old Age Fears; Promises, Promises; The Price of Gold

Socialist Standard muscles into Viz territory

The Socialist Standard reaches out to its teenage readership.

Phil Evans - The Man who decided to redefine Socialism