Scenes From A Revolution

[poliphilo]

 The narrator of the book I'm currently reading- Iris Murdoch"s Under the Net- has been telling us about the time he ghosted his best friend. Synchronicity, eh? He ghosted him because he'd first betrayed him- and can no longer bear to face him. I can bear to face the person I've ghosted, but I think Murdoch has hit upon something in linking ghosting and betrayal. In ghosting we betray the trust the other person had placed in us. We may argue that the trust was always misplaced and we didn't invite it, but this doesn't entirely stifle the feelings of guilt.

I dreamed I went to have my hair cut and the Latin American hairdresser wanted to shave scenes from her country's 19th century revolution into the stubble. I said, "Go for it." 

I'm happy Jeremy Corbyn is starting a new political party. People are joining in droves- and disgust with mainstream politics is such that it may even get somewhere. I don't fancy tying myself to someone's else's mast so I won't join but if the party puts up a candidate locally I'll vote for them.

Comments

[cmcmck]

He's a local boy to us- grew up in Newport just up the road.

[poliphilo]

One of the very few straight-up people in British politics......

[wantedonvoyage]

I can understand the misgivings. Regardless of how they got there (or what they did to cause a change in me), that was how they saw me and I've taken that away. And chances are, they won't keep their feelings about it to themselves.

I have to read back to see what happened.

[paserbyp]

Is Corbyn radical left?

[cmcmck]

Yup!

Some of us are! :o)

[paserbyp]

Communism or Socialism?

[poliphilo]

Yes.

[paserbyp]

Trotsky or Stalin?

[poliphilo]

William Morris

[paserbyp]

His biographer Fiona MacCarthy described his approach as being "Marxism with visionary libertarianism". You're agreed with her?

Also politically, Morris was a staunch revolutionary socialist and anti-imperialist, and although raised a Christian he came to be an atheist. This is why you like him?

[poliphilo]

I like him because he was a great artist who did what he could to put his beliefs into practice.....