En Passant

The contradiction for the system is that the more profit alcohol companies make through workers drinking more the less fit the working class may be to produce profits for the rest of capital. So capitalism regulates that consumption to some extent.

The more workers who go on strike against the boss, the more class struggle generalises itself across society, the less isolated do workers, including young workers, feel. The struggle can become their drug.

Of course, to overcome the alienation that class society imposes upon workers and the violence, alcoholism and drug dependency that goes with it, we would have to overcome the society that produces it. That is what socialist revolution is about – liberating humanity from its alienation and restoring us to our own humanness.

There’d be one sure way I reckon to break the drug smugglers’ business model and all that goes with it, like Customs Department corruption. Legalise drugs and treat addiction as a health issue. They did that in Portugal and the results have been a great success. Maybe we could do something similar for refugees too […]

I have some photos. They may or may not be of a bikie. He or she may or may not be nude. For $15000 I will sell them to the Sunday Telegraph. Oh shit, they published them a few Sundays ago! Let’s get real. Kevin Rudd is a much bigger threat to lives (Iraq and Afghanistan come to mind) […]