I have mentioned before that I am a founding member of an Australian Socialist political party, only because I believe in their right to preach their beliefs and they need a set number of financial members to be recognised as a party.
Lately I have been receiving calls from the party, talking about the fall of capitalism and the coming revolution.
Well apparently it is being funded by a garage sale at Bankstown next Saturday. Mark this day down for the history books.
I had agreed to provide whatever odds and ends I had for the sale. Tonight the guy organising it rang me and asked what I could offer. I told him - a steam mop I don’t use, a few boxes of books. He was thrilled. I asked him how I was to get these things to him and he replied:
“I hadn’t really thought about all the logistics of this.”
Doesn’t surprise me at all. Could you ask them if, when handing out stuff in front of train stations, they could stop blocking the exit? I might give them a cheerful smile whlst refusing stuff, rather than my customary “fuck off” if they did.
I forget—do you have enough agricultural land to feed your home population in Australia, without relying on imports?
Cause, y’know, I just want to know if I need to get ready for the Australian People’s Liberation Army dropping paratroopers into Colorado so they can seize the farm belt.
What? They have to send the government a list of their contributing members so they can be recognized as a party? This is not going to end well. We all know what governments do when they have lists of their enemies.
No more steam mops for you! Pretty soon, no more steam, then no more mops of any kind.
When mops are outlawed only outlaws will have mops.
I just finished reading “The World Set Free” by H. G. Wells. It’s a pre-WW1 pro-socialist fiction. After reading that, it’s clear that many commentators today have no freakin’ idea what real socialism was all about.
