Do the Labour Party have Communist policies?

Not sad at all, I feel just the same. It's fascinating stuff. I love "detail" in lots of areas as in, "how did this or that come to be?"

I love it too RosieandherMaw just as I love learning about the history of costume. They both explain social history, the history of how people lived not what can be the somewhat dry "history" we are often taught - although we'll taught that can also be interesting too.

Sudden thought - I wonder if that why I enjoy politics too?

Well not we'll. Wretched predictive text!

RosieandherMaw

Wyllow3

* RosieandherMaw* Maybe I should ask for a move to Pedants corner

The history of language has always fascinated me!
I remember being told how the “everyday” words were often of Germanic origin but the “posher” or high falutin’ were more usually from Latin via Norman French.
Eg stool (what the peasants sat on) and “Stuhl” in German. Whereas a chair perhaps with arms and a back was only for the better off - “chaise” (French)
Church/ Kirk in Scotland - “Kirche” - German but *ecclesiastical” from ecclesia Latin and église (French)
I used to enjoy “playing” this with the children trying to come up with examples. (Sad person, I know!) 🤣

Me too Rosie and her Maw. I like to know the social implications of etymologies of words. I also like to notice how dialects are higher or lower social status .

Thanks Wyllow , And thanks in advance if you feel a refresher is needed.

Could you also write how communism differs from socialism?

Do you think communism theory is too optimistic about human nature for communism to succeed?

Yes.

It was a wonderful dream which my father needed to believe in like a religion. I often wonder if he hadn't died young his heart would have been broken by it, aa he had a heart attack in 1971....but the writing on the wall was there anyway with the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Just as the sort of religious person who believes in a God who can change destinies (as opposed to a sense of the spiritual but not a god/God who has control of our destinies, feel a great loss if that belief fails.

But human nature will always have the dark and the light within it at many levels of meaning and human activity

When I went to Uni I encountered go course Communists who we would now see as to the left of the Party, but not Corbyn,

which was the path I took on and off with many others. (Feminism became much more important and also cultural issues like multiculturalism, domestic and grooming abuse, and climate change, anti racism and so on).

Wyllow3

(dont live there now)

There is also instead of Roadworks "Roadwerks"

and the best of all - instead of "no snow"

its

"ner snew" 🙂

The "er" sound for "o" is a well-known feature of a Hull accent.

RosieandherMaw

^It seems you have problems researching nanna8 I'm sorry about that but I'm not sure how your post is supposed to be helpful^.
How patronising 😟
A poster’s opinion is just that and she has every right to express it without “teacher” grading her researching ability.
Voltaire probably never actually said the following words attributed to him, but they encapsulate his attitude to free speech and say it so well when much of his writing attacked the Catholic Church’s attempts to restrict people’s liberty at the time.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
Some people would do well to think on.

This. Well said. Attempts to intimidate and belittle put the poster in a poor light. Surely people are allowed to comment without necessarily being ‘helpful’.

Of course, it's nice to be helpful, but for goodness sake, we cant manage this under some of life's strains and stresses. 💁