Autocratic Tendencies (with Khalid Winter)

[@airquotescomedian]

Nice to hear from Wilf during his show. The cats here at AQC manor (Alison, Unknowable Squares, and The Orange One) all looked around to see what was up when Wilf started commentating on the real issues of the day.

[@rickblackmanmusic]

The important aspect of Kronstadt is context. The sailors who manned it at the time of the crisis were not the same highly politicised Bolsheviks as those in the 1917 Revolution. Almost all those had been killed during the civil war. Those stationed at Kronstadt in 1921 were primarily Social Revolutionaries, a profoundly anti-Bolshevik organisation, indeed it was an SR supporter who tried to assassinate Lenin. More than that, the sea was about to thaw and there were British/American warships waiting and hoping that the rebellion is successful as they have weapons waiting for the Whites. Trotsky begs and pleads with the sailors to stop the rebellion for this reason. It’s a dilemma where either option is tragic. However, all the aspects of the Bolshevik revolution must be seen in context of waiting for it to spread to other more industrialised countries, Germany in particular. When the German revolution is defeated, Bolshevik Russia is doomed, irrespective of who is leading it. Kronstadt is a sad symptom of this.

[@rmbull28]

My biggest fear as an anarchist leftist is that people will take me seriously. My second biggest fear is that I will find that seriousness alluring.

[@lloroshastar6347]

The anarchist to authoritarian pipeline.

[@ruthgillett3136]

Aw Wilf… he has a lovely voice 😸 let’s hear more of him

[@lloroshastar6347]

I'm glad the issues with hero worship on the left was brought up here. I actually met someone who said the only reason they didn't support Corbyn was due to the unease they felt around how highly Momentum and other groups held him as a paragon of virtue. I remain unconvinced he would have become a power hungry monster, but I can see why people would view that tendency to paint him as faultless by some with a degree of suspicion.

[@robgoogle1364]

Re the soda stream. We used to light our farts in the early '60s. Maybe you could invent an adapter

[@lloroshastar6347]

It's interesting that some people say the Liverpool/Manchester rivalry is due to the Manchester ship canal. There is a similar myth of the origin of the hatred between Southampton and Portsmouth, they say that the Portsmouth dock workers were on strike and the Southampton workers were scabs, but there is no evidence for this, as if all the Southampton dock workers got together and agreed synonymously that they would betray the Portsmouth dock workers. The reality is it is largely based in Football I think, in fact it used to be that Southampton fans would often go to Portsmouth games every other week and vice versa, the rivalry grew out of a few bad results and the Football hooligan trend in the 70's. It just suddenly became the done thing to hate a neighbouring team just because. I imagine the Liverpool and Manchester rivalry was probably born out of something small and the Football amped it up to 11.

[@jamestoday2239]

What if we banned all sport as part of the new anarchist project? All that syphoned off anger and rage suddenly with no place to go....

[@lloroshastar6347]

@@jamestoday2239 Yes doesn't sound ideal, but there is always Monopoly... Or would that have to be banned as well? "You may keep this card, sell it or stick it up Rick's bottom!"

[@michaelrobson3460]

With soda stream the biggest boycott has always been to buy one Mine is in a kitchen cabinet and I have four cannisters to return that have been in their box for four years. Even when I did return them they lost them.

[@RoboticPolishingBuffingDeburr]

Neil MacGregor is your man in the British museum!.

[@neildavidson2432]

This is really great Alexei. Especially the assumption that working class people are inherently racist when they’re not. Have you ever heard of Bob Cooney in Aberdeen?

[@jamestoday2239]

Is there a correlation between the Bolsheviks hating the peasantry, and the English rural poor's closer bonds with feudalism, doffing the cap etc. Versus the politically organized workers in towns and cities of the industrialised north, Manchester Bradford and so on?

[@robgoogle1364]

Why does it sound like your wearing a scuba diving breathing apparatus every time you breathe?

[@303cerebral]

Alexei is slowly becoming a radical left wing Darth Vader

[@4-dman464]

The episode title inadvertently makes me laugh, it's so British to moderate even an emphatic state with a mitigating clause like "quite" or "sort of" or "in a way" or "a tad"... So AUTOCRATIC TENDENCIES is a bit like the govt tends to stomp its boot in my face. The police tend to kick my door down. Intelligence authorities are a tad intrusive eavesdropping my life 24/7. The economy is just a little bit colluding tending to conspire to abolish cash. My GP is somewhat culpable in some rather dodgy recommendations since 2018. The BBC is, in a way, not to be trusted in any way whatsoever.

[@234cheech]

thares a lot of it about