Poor Dave

Dave does not listen to me, which is all part of his defective mental equipment.  I said that PPE was a useless subject before when the obvious subject for a potential Prime Minister is "History".  If he had read that he would have surely known that it is not wise to tangle with a despot who is coping with an insurrection.  To do this you need immense fire power and determination otherwise you are bound to get hurt and harm the unfortunate rebels who think that you are going to help them out of their troubles.  When Hitler was faced with an insurrection in Warsaw in 1944 he killed 200,000 Poles.  If Gaddafi does not finish off  the rebels quickly he is quite capable of doing something like it to his own people and then turn on the people who kept on urging him to step down without the power to make him do so.  What a sorry mess.  Dave should stop poncing around on the world stage and stay at home to sort out the terrible problems that the Blair-Brown government left behind them.

Yesterday was the anniversary of Karl Marx's death.  How kind of us to give him sanctuary in the British Museum where he could write the work that has done so much harm in the world. I have not read his work and am too old to do so now.  Courage.  There is a good overview of socialist thought in the 19th century in "To the Finland Station" by Edmund Wilson.  When Marx was living in London he took pains to avoid another exiled revolutionary, Alexander Herzen, the author of a wonderful autobiography "My Past and Thoughts" available in paperback.  Herzen was working for a peaceful revolution which was not what Marx wanted at all.  What a shame that Marx won the race for the hearts and minds of so many.