What's behind the world economic meltdown? Chris Bambery, editor of Socialist Worker, 25 Sept 2008

Socialist Worker's Editor on the crisis.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk
Meeting at the Vida Walsh centre in Brixton

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[tobaldwin]

No. Its just being realistic. The SWP have always had the anti midas touch...

The SWP believe in Socialism from above. And that has been totally discredited.

They think that the majority of people can not be trusted and need to be educated.

Myself i want to see real socialism. The majority of people in control not some new elite....

[adycousins]

you appear to have some mis-conceptions about what the SWP stands for - socialism from above isn't one of them.

[rayyyyyy1]

The SWP are totally discredited by their actions over the last 30 years.

Dogmatic,Sectarian and Hysterical.

The thing is now there is huge potential for a serious democratic party to the left of labour but it will never succeed if the SWP is even a part of it.

[adycousins]

rayyyyyy1 that's a bit hysterically sectarian and dogmatic isn't it?

[BVargas78]

The money hasnt exactly gone because it never actually existed. Capitalism is like a house of cards because of a lot of the wealth comes from speculative value rather than a real physical product.

All this lost money is from hugely inflated values of financial services products, when the root of real wealth comes from physical things and production.

[jack1980a]

I wish socialists would just say they don't believe in freedom. Then maybe we could have real conversation.

[misterwipedown]

sorry I don't speak your 'bubbla bubbla' language

[ButherLi55ett]

@kocevje26 The world economy crisis is not a good thing. It is 'good' in that workers' are thinking about why it has happened, what causes it, how we could live differently etc. I want democracy, workers' democracy to the fullest. Not bourgeois democracy, 'liberal democracy', parliamentary democracy or any of this other shit. The UK still has elements of feudalism for fuck sake, we have a monarchy even!

[kocevje26]

yugoslavija was a nice country bloving up by nice peaceful demokrats !and now we have demokratie evrebody hates evrebody,we make difrences between religion colour nacionality !you bring us pain broke countrys and economy you give us Mtv ,coca cola, marlboro, mcdonalds,nike,your musik your culture to make us STUPID LIKE YOU ARE!!!your goverment controls you but for us still no !!!so fuck demokratie and the west !one day is this your end as a worldpolice !im hapy abouth the world economy problems

[kocevje26]

thats was the reason to destroid it kapitalisam 100% buy all!!! make buisness worldwide ! dont mether how many people die, lie to the media !send wrong news in the world ,and find a agressor that was in this moment srbija becouse thay want to hold yugoslavia togheter so lets send the NATO to bring yugoslav people demokratie and peace !that s the truth abouth west usa eu if you are not dancing like they want they destroid you killing in the name of kapitalism !

[kocevje26]

i was growing up in socialist republick of YUGOSLAVIJA we were peaceful country !no nacionalizm, rassizm,but like we know a demokratik kapitalistik country USA;EUROPEEN UNION destroid us !the worldbank with imbargo than they send agents they make thair job very good our economy broke thogeter they send money for weapons and lets destroid komumistik country yugoslavija put it in to 6 small peaces to controll it bether !yugoslav words were we dont want others only ours we defent!

[gettingchilli]

its dumb how people fink socialist dnt believe in freedom anarchist socialist stop reading the sun newspaper

[BringBack500s]

You are absolutely correct, Sicoalists have no interest in freedom of speech, except for those who have earned the right the right to free speech, that is the people who have created everything in society, that is the people who work. That is the working class.

All the rest, up against the wall motherfcukers.

Next?

[cayetanoluis]

I suppose that socialists don't feel any obligation to conform to your erroneous stereotypes. Perhaps if you acknowledged that socialism isn't synonymous with Stalinism, then maybe we could have a real conversation.

[freedombiteback]

just like our* new friends China and Russia