Simon Wigley - The Curse of Looking Backward

[SimonJWigley]

There's a big difference between what you can write, and what you can do in a talk, and I don't think I took that on board enough - it was way too dense. The jokes were awful too. Tough crowd.

Great T-shirt though. I can't find it anywhere. I think my laundry's been raided by Castroites.

I'll try to do better in my talk this year.

Regards,

Simon W.

[SimonJWigley]

What I thought was me trying to put Marx's case in his own words looked a bit like Bible study.

I should definitely have cut and pasted all of the quotes into my text rather than relying on books as props. Too much flicking around, and humming and hawing. A lectern would have been very nice. Leaning over the table looks awful.

[SimonJWigley]

I'm still not sure I got my point across properly. I think I put too much stuff in, didn't translate all of the Marxism out of the German effectively enough, and certainly should have had a whole summer school on the early Marx before even attempting it - there was far too much ellipsis. Basically, I knew the context of what I was saying, but didn't put nearly enough context in, to the point that some of it was downright inscrutable.

[SimonJWigley]

Well my talk was successful in one regard, I suppose - I experience disgust and alienation with my current conditions when seeing myself on video :-)

[ButherLi55ett]

This is a really good presentation, thanks for uploading. Is he the official Marxist fraction of the SPGB ; ) I was wondering about the 'Che' t-shirt to start with as any decent communist is against bourgeois national liberation but then the camera zoomed in!

[pfbcarlisle]

@ButherLi55ett

cheers BL!

The only fashion we follow is, er, fashion ;>)