Oh, the tragedy of having to bear the local TV news...
Jack McConnel is mingling with the unwashed and some politicians are making speeches in the Scottish Parliament. None of it happens to CHANGE anything.
I also happened to be listening to John Reid (Defence Minister) on Jeremy Vine's lunchtime show on Radio 2. It concerned this, and for all Reid rebutted the arguments that the occupation forces have no Plan B, he never actually said anything.
My college class has been studying Marxism in Politics, and we seen how change can only come through the economic base - the media, education, law, parliament - all the superstructure is controlled by the bourgeoisie. Whether voting for the vaguely leftist Labour Party or the SWP or SSP - neither can evoke change like owning the modes of production ourselves.
It reminds me of a daydream I had some time ago in sixth year English, in which I imagined the workers of IBM had taken control of the factory and were running it themselves (since another round of layoffs had occurred at the time). My only stumbling point was wondering why they hadn't done so already. They want to keep their jobs, but the union does not fight. The unions are complicit.
I don't even hear the politicians anymore, just as I don't notice the hum of the mains supply.
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