Preface to the Coming World Crisis
By Keith Hart
There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is that the end of liberalism in all its forms is nigh and the West/Security Council will soon be ‘fascist’, if Le Pen becomes French President. Poor old Britain may be an exception; according to me, it is breaking up and its state is no longer able to project power inside or outside its territory. But to use the term ‘fascist’ is to focus on the wrong period, like referring to post-2008 as a return to the Great Depression. We need a longer-term perspective, such as the 20th and 21st centuries taken together, if we want to place our moment in world history.
In 1900, Europeans controlled around 80% of the world’s land surface. Europe itself had a population of 400 million, a quarter of the world’s population (36% including lands of new settlement in temperate zones). Europe’s expansion was fuelled by a demographic explosion, 1830-1930; it was the main centre for imperialism and machine industry. Africa’s population share was only 7.5%; it’s land area was almost double that (14%), with hardly any cities and almost no machines — the ‘scramble for Africa’ from the 1880s was easy, feeding notions of White racial superiority. By 2100, Asia is projected to have 42% of the world’s population (down from 60% today) and Africa 40% (up from 15% today). The rest – North, Central and South America, Europe and Russia, Australasia and Oceania – will by then muster 18% between them, Europe 6% (including many migrants from Africa and Asia). This shift will occur in 200 years.
Between the 1880s and 1914, 50 million Europeans left their home ‘continent’, three–quarters of them to the United States. The same number of ‘coolies’ from India and China moved to the Tropics in the main. As W. Arthur Lewis pointed out in
The Evolution of the International Economic Order (1978), these two human rivers had to be kept apart, since they were paid 9 shillings and 1 shilling a day respectively for roughly the same kind of work. The division of the world into highly paid industrial workers and low-paid agricultural workers thus began later than most people think, around 1900. In 1870 in Britain, the best indicator for annual fluctuations in the economy was the weather at harvest-time.
The two global streams met however in the United States and South Africa, where Whites already controlled substantial Black populations who were beginning to move en masse to the cities. Segregation, apartheid and the colour bar thus took their modern form in these countries later than is commonly supposed. The Whites realised that they were outnumbered by the rest who were also catching up with them. This was the prime political issue around 1900. Robert Vitalis, in
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (2015), shows that IR was driven at first by racism and imperialism, not by power plays between states or geographical blocs, as it has been since 1945 (when racism went officially underground, only to come back to the surface now once more). Foreign Affairs started out in 1910 as The Journal of Race Development. The question then was how the Whites could retain control in the face of a declining share of the world’s population. This is an even more pressing issue now that capitalism has gone global with the emergence of China, India, Brazil and other countries.
The outbreak of the First World War changed everything. In the previous three decades, financial imperialism (what Karl Polanyi in
The Great Transformation called haute finance, aka the Rothschilds, J.P. Morgan etc.) ruled the world, the Russian economy had grown at an average annual rate of 10% for three decades, all that human movement transformed art and science, through the likes of cubism, relativity and quantum physics etc. – in a word, modernity with its statist reaction. Until then, no-one thought that nation-states could control the turbulence of urban markets, industrial capitalism and population movement – states were fixed, an outmoded relic of an agrarian age that lasted for 5,000 years. A new alliance between capitalists and the military landlord class in revolutions of the 1860s and early 70s gave birth to national capitalism – the attempt to manage money, markets and accumulation through central bureaucracies allegedly in the interests of the citizen body as a whole. This gestated through the age of imperialism and became the twentieth century’s dominant social form.
After the Great War, the senseless slaughter in the trenches undermined Europeans’ belief in their own monopoly of reason and civilization. The hit movie of 1922 was Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, showing an Eskimo’s resilience in the face of appalling natural forces. In the same year Malinowski launched modern anthropology with
Argonauts of the Western Pacific, T.S. Eliot published
The Waste Land, Joyce
Ulysses and Wittgenstein his
Tractatus. A good fraction of the western intellectuals were signalling the retreat from empire, just as they are now from neoliberal globalization.
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During the Great War, states mobilized and killed off vast armies, they controlled industrial production, set prices in markets and rationed supplies, monopolised propaganda. Trade, transport and migration were severely disrupted. After the war, the race was on to determine which kind of state would rule the world – welfare state ‘democracy’, fascist or communist? The world economy, led by Woodrow Wilson – who saw that nationalism would undo the European empires, especially the British – turned inwards to national capitalism and import-substituting industrialization for 60 years (‘socialism in one country’ was an attempt to revive Russia’s three decades of growth before the war).
The Second World War knocked out fascism and unleashed the anti-colonial revolution and the Cold War, followed by three decades of developmental states in the Western capitalist, Soviet bloc and newly independent countries. For the first and only time, governments gave priority to increasing the purchasing power of working people and investing in public infrastructure (not least its military component). This was the last world revolution and it generated the biggest boom in economic history; Reagan and Thatcher’s neoliberal conservatism (ably assisted by Kohl and Nakasone, not to mention Deng, Pinochet, the Chicago school etc.) was the counter-revolution.
To reiterate, the current world crisis, which hasn’t peaked yet, is similar to the one that broke out in 1913-14, with the United States as Britain and China as Russia. British power was already in decline then and many would like to think that American power today is too. I beg to differ and so does Trump. The US still has all those weapons and bases around the world, a third of the world market, the world currency (a haven in times of uncertainty) and generates most of the hardware, software, content and giant organizations of the digital economy, which is fast becoming the world economy. Its rulers can probably ensure that the fighting takes place somewhere else, unless they are foolish enough to declare war on Mexico.
Europe will be the
main and permanent loser in this world crisis. China imports massive quantities of food and energy and, like the other Asian manufacturers, still relies on global demand for its exports, without having yet established production for the home market in its stead (Lenin’s recipe in
The Development of Capitalism in Russia, 1899, still the best book on capitalist growth ever written). The constraints of disrupted trade, transport and migration, as well as the impact of war would unseat the present ruling class and break up the country – it has happened before. Africa’s future is more indeterminate than most; and with two out of five human beings living there by the end of this century, that is worth thinking about.
Clearly there is nothing inevitable about any of this – the demography, world money and markets, war, the internet’s future, the end of national capitalism, its potential replacement, the political forms emergent now. I would bet that the United States will emerge relatively stronger from what’s coming up. In any case, progressives had better start thinking outside the box of an insular Western politics and link up with where all the people are. The most hopeful political coalitions when I was younger were the anti-war and nuclear disarmament movements. They are largely forgotten today – who wants to recall nightmares? A vigorous global anti-war movement before it happens might be one suitable response. Maybe that is no more likely than an immediate solution to the world’s money problems. Many people will have to lose a lot more than they have already before they will contemplate the radical changes necessary to address these contradictions effectively.
In 1938, C.L.R. James published
A History of Negro Revolt (later revised as
A History of Pan-African Revolt) in which he predicted Africans’ emancipation from colonial empire. He had no takers from African politicians then; and the European far left (he was Britain’s most prominent Trotskyist at the time) insisted that the revolution had to take place in Europe before they would give Africans their independence. The Second World War changed all that. The Third World War would do the same for us. We have to decide between trying to stop it or, like the Bolsheviks in 1917 and the fascists afterwards, take revolutionary advantage of the disaster.
Does anyone sincerely believe that the West (the Whites) will peacefully hand over world leadership to the non-white global majority, led by the BRICS, whom they coerced into joining the world society they made, while they had a virtual monopoly of capital, industry, markets and transport and had mastered genocide by remote means? Or that the United States would relinquish its empire without a fight, when it holds so many of the world’s winning cards listed above?
The period from 1979/80 to now has been built on the premises of a cruel Grimm brothers’ fairy tale, just as c. 1880 to 1914 was also. Soon our equivalent to the garden parties will be swept away and our Titanic deck chairs sunk, unless those of us who oppose such an outcome get our act together now and think more broadly about connecting with others who might be on our side. It is not so much a question of predicting a victory for our side as doing our best for what is right and in the human interest.
Keith Hart is International Director of the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria.
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[1] If there is one established historical trend supporting my view on neoliberal globalization, it is not an instant response to Trump’s few policies so far and what he might do later. US world power is based on mercantilism, militarism, intellectual property and owning the world currency, not any kind of liberalism, neo- or otherwise. The Pentagon is the largest collective in world history and it is viscerally anti-market in its organization, while it ostensibly fights for free enterprise. Four of the BRICS (not Russia, which is well down the road to fascism) are trying to develop social protection in their own way to save the millions of their people who joined urban markets without it, as the West did in the decades after 1945. They must build up and protect their home markets or go under – and they are 40% of the world population! What I am not offering here is kneejerk journalism. The title says what I mean – we are not yet in the decisive world crisis and this is a Preface not a prophecy.
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onlooker on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 1:20 pm
He is right about one thing the Western US Empire will not go down without a fight. He is dead wrong about everything else in this article. Their is no precedent to this stage in human history. We are at the cusp of total catastrophe for most life on Earth especially us. No winners will be emerging except scattered survivors. Fatal mistake we chose to vanquish our mother, Mother Earth
penury on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 2:04 pm
Preface to the coming crisis? The crisis is now. Governments have been able to hide a lot of the destruction for now, The west by a continuing war in the ME over 50 years and still going strong. Without the continuing wars to support the MIC of the U.S. the on-going depression would have been much more obvious. However, you can only invent and spend money for a limited time, and I think the Fed has exceeded its time, and the amounts created rival the GDP of the entire world. Now we need to create billions more to preserve our project in Europe. The EU cannot be allowed to fail,Want to bet?
onlooker on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 2:12 pm
Yep, the EU, is being squeezed by the hordes of displaced flooding its borders and by the ascendancy and alliance of Russia and China and some other Asian countries and the imperial US
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 2:49 pm
He left out the biggest part of the crisis that is well underway and beyond human intervention. It’s already costing big time and, in the end, will break them all.
Last winter’s floods ‘most extreme on record in UK’, says study
Highest ever rainfall recorded in UK was in December 2015 at Honister Pass in Lake District with 341.4mm falling in 24 hours
“The storm, which caused an estimated insurance bill of more than £1.3bn, was part of a persistent pattern of weather that also included the major storms of Abigail, Frank and Gertrude.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/05/last-winters-floods-most-extreme-on-record-uk-study
Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical.
“It’s not a hundred years off — it’s now.”
“Congress is prepared to spend the money that cities and states say they need: tens of billions of dollars just to catch up to the current flooding problems, much less get ahead of them. Norfolk alone, a town of 250,000 people, has a wish list of $1.2 billion — or about $5,000 for every man, woman and child in the city.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html?_r=1
$Cha ching $Cha ching $Cha Ching
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 3:33 pm
Crisis right in front of you.
Cars Line Up to See Wildfire-Ravaged Tennessee City; 13 Dead
https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2016/dec/5/cars-line-up-to-see-wildfire-ravaged-tennessee-city-13-dead/
Experts Warn of Mental Health Woes as Wildfires Ravage South
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/experts-warn-mental-health-woes-wildfires-ravage-south-43962883
Mental health referrals spike in wake of Fort McMurray fire
More than 20% of community seeking some sort of counselling or therapy
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-mental-health-1.3717632
These people are reacting like bombed out by empire brown people or WWII europeans – PTSD.
Well it is a war after all. Man vs Nature. Looks like nature pulled a 250 year ropeAdope and is now hitting back. Fight should only be another round or two.
Humans too fucking stupid to throw in the towel. Nature made them that way.
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 3:44 pm
Crisis. Another AGW jacked Rain Bomb.
Flash floods kill one woman and bring chaos to southern Spain
“Around 100 cubic metres of rain are estimated to have fallen within 28 hours.”
http://www.euronews.com/2016/12/04/flash-floods-kill-one-woman-and-bring-chaos-to-southern-spain
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 4:50 pm
One By One, the Flood Gates of Antarctica are Breaking Open
“Massive Rift Forming in Larsen C
Larsen C. It’s the next big ice shelf on the butcher’s block in West Antarctica. And now it appears the shelf may be well on its way to facing the same fate as its companions Larsen A and Larsen B. That fate — disintegration and the ultimate release of glaciers that have been held in check for thousands of years into the world ocean.”
“For today, a huge rift running through the ice shelf is about to break off a Delaware-sized iceberg into the Atlantic Ocean. The rift is broadening, deepening and extending. And it now measures 70 miles long, 300 feet wide, and a third of a mile deep. Once this enormous abyssal crack runs its course and causes about 10 percent of the ice shelf to break off, the big land-grounded glaciers sitting upon mountainous slopes behind the ice shelf will have less protection. They will increase their forward speed and contribute larger volumes of ice outflow to the growing problem of global sea level rise.”
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/06/one-by-one-the-flood-gates-of-antarctica-are-breaking-open/
DerHundistlos on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 5:53 pm
@ Ape
Do you honestly believe facts matter to The Republicans who now control all branches of government? Of course not. I say let the Republicans have their way: sell-off all of the parks and wildlife refugees to the highest bidder; sack the Endangered Species Act; dump the EPA. Yep, give the people what they paid for. They deserve it and more.
makati1 on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:17 pm
Doggiehummm. Still better than the nuclear war that Hillary was planning. ^_^
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:45 pm
DerHundistlos, the more rabid the believer, the less facts matter. All the research plus numerous examples from history show that as more evidence accrues falsifying their beliefs, the harder they believe – doubling down.
What is the belief perseverance phenomenon?
Belief perseverance is a psychological phenomenon in which people hold on tightly to their beliefs regardless of convincing evidence that proves they are actually incorrect.
https://www.reference.com/world-view/belief-perseverance-phenomenon-131f958fb726791e
I can think of no better recent examples of this than the many people in Fort McMurray and Gatlinburg who have had their towns burn down and the people in south Florida who regularly have sea water in the streets that they wade and drive through, yet they are still in denial of AGW even though these types of consequence were predicted decades ago.
“Towns always burn down”
I’ll repost this new 8 min video of water water everywhere (streets, yards) in south Florida on a nice calm sunny day, as an exclamation mark on my point.
“No no no it’s a movie set just like the moon landing hoax”
The Perfect Tide: Sea Level and the Future of South Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU
It almost defies belief that this is happening, but this is not a bug of a particular society or time we live in, although it amplifies it. This is default human behaviour and history is riddled with it. Tends to appear a lot in the last stages of dying empires and civilizations along with magical thinking and violence.
“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:55 pm
mak, Hillary wasn’t planning it, she was selling it. There are thousands and thousands of power mad neocons in the US government and military planning it and they don’t give a fuck about clown Trump.
The coming war on China
“Today, more than 400 American military bases encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and, above all, nuclear weapons. From Australia north through the Pacific to Japan, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, the bases form, says one US strategist, ‘the perfect noose’.
A study by the RAND Corporation – which, since Vietnam, has planned America’s wars – is entitled War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable. Commissioned by the US Army, the authors evoke the Cold War when RAND made notorious the catch cry of its chief strategist, Herman Kahn – ‘thinking the unthinkable’. Kahn’s book, On Thermonuclear War, elaborated a plan for a ‘winnable’ nuclear war against the Soviet Union.”
https://newint.org/features/2016/12/01/the-coming-war-on-china/
The election, which was just one big, “he said” “she said” distraction worked accordingly. All plans went ahead while the sheeple played celebrity watching like the predictable little social monkeys they are.
You really think these war pigs went to all that trouble and expense and are just going to roll over for Trump IF he is even going to challenge them? Somehow I think not.
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:58 pm
War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1100/RR1140/RAND_RR1140.pdf
makati1 on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 7:14 pm
Ap, of course she wasn’t planing it. That would assume she has a brain, which has never been proven. I know who is behind it. But Trump may choose to not go along with it. Another “JFK” in the works? We shall see.
makati1 on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 7:15 pm
Ap, BTW: I read that article from the Rand. Proof of the rampant insanity inside the DC Beltway.
Cloggie on Wed, 7th Dec 2016 5:16 am
There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is that the end of liberalism in all its forms is nigh and the West/Security Council will soon be ‘fascist’, if Le Pen becomes French President.
Yes the Western European Left is going down the drain, just like their US counter part already did, boohoo. Oh and there we go again… “Fascism!”. If you resist giving your country away to Islamists, you are a fascist, that the self-serving Hollywood “understanding” of it (Italian Fascism killed internally ca. 10 people during its entire existence between 1922-1943, less than half the state of Texas executes on average in a year).
Concerning Europe, this is what we want and will achieve:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcuCUg5WIAAIOnU.jpg
Poor old Britain may be an exception; according to me, it is breaking up and its state is no longer able to project power inside or outside its territory.
Yep, Scotland will rejoin the EU/continental Europe after Brexit and majority non-white London and its Muslim mayor attempts to secede from England as we speak. That’s what you get if you ignore race/religion.
Europe will be the main and permanent loser in this world crisis.
Really? According to the recent ‘Legatum Prosperity Index’…
http://daskapital.nl/images/other/economienl2dst.gif
… Western Europe ranges before the US in prosperity. And we in Europe can and will eventually play the Russian card. The EU already decided to set up an independent army. Won’t be long until the US-EU gap of 50-25% global military expenditure will be narrowed substantially, in mutual US-EU agreement.
many would like to think that American power today is too. I beg to differ and so does Trump.
Trump has admitted that America is “losing” on many fronts. Claiming that he will “make America great again” is an admission that today America isn’t that great. First see, then believe. The reality is that America is split to the core in two halves on the issue of race with dangerous potential for major conflict. Furthermore it begins to dawn on many even in Washington that US global empire is not going to happen; China and Russia are not going to be usurped and many in Europe are keen to leave the US empire (France first and foremost), so what’s the use of all these 800 foreign bases anyway other than a drain on fiscal resources, when at home infrastructure is crumbling?
I would bet that the United States will emerge relatively stronger from what’s coming up.
I wouldn’t.
Does anyone sincerely believe that the West (the Whites) will peacefully hand over world leadership to the non-white global majority, led by the BRICS
Russia is a prominent white member of the BRICS and is keen to become a member of Europe. The author admits that the Left is on the way out. The answer for the white world to remain on top lies in a slightly amended version of the right-wing identitarian model of Samuel Huntington and his “Clash of Civilizations”.
https://s17.postimg.org/6wwnomfpb/worldmap.jpg
The amendment needs to be that a) the US gets rid of those states that no longer feel obliged to the European core of the country (California and New York for starters) and b) Russia will be welcomed as a new prominent member of the West, to be rebranded as the North or Eurosphere, to indicate the clear opposition towards the South that needs to be kept out, if necessary by force. We are not masochistically going to offer our homelands as a free hotel/hospital for the endless masses of the third world. Expect the rise of militant white nationalism/’alt right’ everywhere in the North. Putin, Trump, le Pen, Wilders are only small signs of what is to come. In the end it will be militia’s or armies.
Leftism is out
Cultural Marxism is out
Third world-ism is out
Globalism is out
Soros is out
The multi-polar world of Huntington is next.
Davy on Wed, 7th Dec 2016 6:53 am
Both spectrums of political elites are out and what is stepping in is social, political, and economic nationalism. The right was on the way out 8 or so years ago and the left has now been dealt a blow. The deep state, MIC, and elites are of both colors and now both are damaged and in retreat. There was a balance for a time between elites of both colors but now they are all facing retreat. They once sparred each other but it was their game. They held the cards but no more do they have all the cards. There is a new game in town and it is called nationalism. Putin has mastered it effectively and now others are following. Nationalism appeals to the masses and the masses have spoken. In Russia it was for a strong leader and in the US anyone but the status quo. It is still unclear if Trump will be a Putin in ability. Sometimes great men find their place.
I never would have thought Trump to make it this far but he had a bold vision and stamina against huge odds. He tapped into the masses because he knew their anger. It was his anger too. The elites were too busy stealing to see this. He also had the luck of the elite’s incompetence. The Democrats were so deplorables to allow their disgusting corruption to lose that election. They had it in the bag. They had all levels of government and industry in their pockets and they still lost. What a bunch of incompetents. In 6 months we will know which way Trump is going but anything is better than what we had.
Trump is unpredictable which makes him dangerous. Yet, this is more the pragmatism he learned as a businessman. He is first a business man and now learning to be a politician. This is a key point because he will function differently than a pure politician like Obama. He does not care about politically correct he cares about being politically effective with a business plan. Personally I feel so much bad shit is coming to the global economy that Trump may not see a 2nd term. He is also likely old too to stand up to the rigors of the battles ahead. I imagine these coming 4 years will be hard on his age. He already looks older and it was just one year of electioneering. He will need to set and execute his agenda quickly or be lost to outside events.
I feel he is and will remain an outsider. He will use the inside to get what he wants or at least try. Those complaining about his choices should remember he doesn’t have many choice. Nearly everyone is an insider. Insiders are insiders for a reason. He will have to choose from what is available. He knows he has enemies everywhere so he will be very cautious and adaptive. He will exploit his enemies with opportunities for new blood and it will be these people that will make a difference. If he can find the right people to believe in his new direction of economic, political, and social nationalism he will succeed. Some of these people may be a surprise and accept a new direction from what they were. As in any business it takes a team to succeed. The personality can only do so much. His lieutenant will be what matters eventually.
I see global decay and a new multipolarism based on common needs developing. Trump will chose to fight China on all levels and embrace Russia. Russia will remain pro Chinese but they know they need a balance between the two superpowers. Russia is economically too small and must find a balance between the two.
All this is up in the air though. A false flag military action could disrupt this new momentum away from the status quo. I hope Putin does not fall for it or he himself avoids exploit the interim dangerously to gain advantage for negotiations with Trump. This could be one of the most profound periods in our survival because it is NUK war that is our biggest immediate danger. We can collapse together over time economically but a major war will end us quickly. It is my hope Trump and Putin can quiet the cold war. I hope Trump will define an economic retreat from globalism. There will not be a new affluence in this retreat. What it will be is sobriety of less. I am not sure if people realize this. You can’t have your cake and eat it. Nothing can match globalism for productivity but productivity does not mean value. Beyond a point value is not defined by more it is defined by a different relative metric. It is more like marginalism in economics. Gold and water represent different value. What would you go without? What would you rather win as a prize? What will be better in decline is a foundation built on something more than a Ponzi house of cards even if this means less.
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Dec 2016 9:18 am
Old dutch, you can’t actually prosecute a revolution from the keyboard. Need to get off your ass and into the street and put your physical safety on the line. Are you prepared to have your face smashed in or die for it? What are you going to do old man? Throw your walker at them? Weaponize your constipation meds? You had your day and everything went to shit under your boomer watch while y’all lived like kings. Now, in addition to the youth having to suffer the consequences of you decades of apathy and indifference, you want them to fight a revolution, to soothe your anger. Typical spoiled entitled Boomer mentality. I noticed how in between inciting the violence you like to brag about buying a $900 curved screen computer monitor and going on your canned corporate vacations to Istanbul and such. One would think a real revolutionary, with the courage of his convictions, would donate his money to the cause and especially after 72 years of easy living. Another Boomer demanding his entitlement. Won’t be your blood being spilt or face smashed in. You’ll be at home watching it on your $900 curved screen computer monitor. Typical dutch coward.
Cloggie on Wed, 7th Dec 2016 11:55 am
Old dutch, you can’t actually prosecute a revolution from the keyboard.
It has been long obvious that there is not a millimeter between your opinions and the propaganda from the History Channel. What do you expect me to do, pull a Breivik?
The rule of history is: first a Diderot (or many of them), then the revolution. Words/programming precede action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb55teb1gJ0
Top of the bill country Canada going down the drain.
Too many nihilistic Friday’s who don’t give a shit. So sad.