https:\/\/halva.proboards.com\/thread\/1166\/superstition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/halva.proboards.com\/thread\/1168\/bob-dylans-conversion?page=1&scrollTo=3380<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/death-in-brazil-9780747573166\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzQ3afCVxmQ&t=59s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n AI Overview<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Robb and Marcia Langton are close, decades-long friends and prominent Australian intellectuals who first met as political activists in a Trotskyist group during the 1970s. [1<\/a>, 2<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n History and Relationship<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is my slightly altered version of a poem of that time: <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m an entrist, a centrist, a Pabloite revisionist <\/p>\n\n\n\n A real-life Trotskyist <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sweet Fourth International sweet Fourth International <\/p>\n\n\n\n And never been kissed <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve got a mass red base and that\u2019s why I\u2019d rather sit on the floor <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to be a vanguard better join Securicor <\/p>\n\n\n\n My poppa my poppa was opportunistic <\/p>\n\n\n\n My mother was mystified <\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to be I want to be I want to be a movement <\/p>\n\n\n\n But there\u2019s no-one on my side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To the memory of Adrian Mitchell<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2008\/12\/mitc-d24.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n AI discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI revealed that the line \u201cIf you want to be a Vanguard better join Securicor\u201d is part of a song by the punk group Crass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I told AI that the line was taken from a British poet of the seventies<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI responded: You are entirely correct. The line was originally written by the acclaimed British socialist and pacifist poet Adrian Mitchell<\/a>. [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the early 1970s, Mitchell penned a brief, biting satirical verse that read: [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n “If you want to be a Vanguard, better join Securicor.<\/em> The Context Behind the Line<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 The Target of the Satire:<\/strong> Mitchell was taking aim at the self-proclaimed “vanguard” parties of the British far-left in the 1970s (such as Marxist-Leninist or Trotskyist factions). He was wryly suggesting that if you want a top-down, authoritarian hierarchy that strictly polices people, you might as well join a literal private security firm like Securicor<\/strong>. [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Crass’s Intellectual Continuity:<\/strong> Crass co-founder Penny Rimbaud<\/a> was deeply embedded in the 1960s and 70s avant-garde performance art and poetry scenes. Crass frequently lifted, repurposed, or responded to radical literature and anti-war poetry. By turning Mitchell’s verse into a raging punk track, Crass expanded on his critique to trash both corporate capitalism and dogmatic left-wing political groups. [1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comment by enouranois: A member of Securicor is also a vanguard because he\/she guards vans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jan your detective work on Joe Bogan was very helpful and also thank Max for knowing who Joe Rogan is. I will be glad if this helpfulness on his part can be followed up by our being friends again.. I put some links here which might go towards explaining why I would like to know whether Peter Robb still supports Lula (having written a brilliant book on him and on Brazil generally) and what he thinks of Bolsonaro. I have tried to contact Peter Robb for many years, having known both him and Marcia Langton in the Communist League. Marcia Langton became my enemy when I made the mistake of trying to persuade both the CL leader John McCarthy and Peter Robb himself not to take the CL into fusion with the Socialist Workers’ Party, which I predicted accurately would be its death knell. I had this discussion with the two white men and did not say a word about it to Marcia Langton, and so earned her contempt. Peter Robb visited me in my home in Melbourne and there was an embarrassing incident where I spilled our lunch on the floor. I also knew his sister Heather Robb and … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image.png\")
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My daddy was opportunistic. My mama was mystified.<\/em>
I want to be a movement. But there’s no-one on my side.<\/em>
NO REVOLUTION WITHOUT COMPASSION.”<\/em> [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n