Dear readers, I watched the excellent documentary For Land by my friends at Prolekult a couple of months ago and it knocked me for six. It explains how modern industrial capitalism's use of fossil fuels made it possible to draw together the people who became the modern working
I recently wrote an email to my MP, Alison McGovern, asking that she vote against the government's proposed plans to remove the winter fuel payments from pensioners. She sent me back a copy of Rachel Reeves' press release. This is my reply: Dear Alison, First, let me
Simple but not easy Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening. Chico Mendes Contents Capitalism bad Markets, profits & other delusions The big con The ecocide Accountability Green nationalism Socialism Why "eco"? The choice What you can do right now Capitalism bad There are a couple of really
Here I republish a slightly edited book review I did of David Whyte's Ecocide. There is a book called The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that I have never read. It was made into a film, and that I have seen. If you have never seen the
Harder than it looks. Keep your hands off my cow Many years ago I got into a conversation with a silly person on Facebook. This isn't hard to do, so I will give a bit more information. He was talking about how he would have his own cow
No, really! Many moons ago when I was a young lad, I remember reading of comments made by a Soviet dissident exile who arrived in Rome to see striking workers marching and using public transport at the prices set before the government tried to raise them. If I recall correctly
I got into an interesting discussion about capitalism on Mastodon where I ended saying: Things are in a constant state of change, and the only way to fix it permanently is to take the capitalists’ toys away. I was challenged on this, and how we would take their toys away
Let's cut through the hype I've been professionally writing software for nearly 40 years. Here's my thoughts: 1. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are basically very large predictive text boxes. Instead of just guessing the next word, they can guess whole documents while
Recuperation redux I recently discovered John The Duncan's videos on Youtube, and I think it's really good, sincere stuff. I watched his one about degrowth, and I need to read the background material. I'd also recommend the one about Left Wing White Supremacy which
How do we build a better world? If you’ve been reading Green Plenty for a while you will definitely know that I advocate for restructuring society so it meets human needs first and puts the idiocy of profit seeking in the bin where it belongs. See the articles on
Race is a knife that cuts us all. Race is used to obscure class divisions. For example: Home owning types tend to be white for historical reasons around poverty and relative incomes. Their views aren’t driven by whiteness as such but by their material conditions. The same holds for
I haven't posted here for quite a while, a dear one is being treated for a serious illness and my mind has been on other things. I also lost my job, which was quite careless I suppose, and then found another one. So my mind has been taken