XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.politics.parliament, uk.local.london   
   From: 7won-t15h@dea.spamcon.org   
      
   banana wrote:   
   > In Sylvia Pankhurst's most radical period she was anti-parliamentary.   
   >   
   > Anti-parliamentarism was presented as 'beyond the pale' by the bourgeois   
   > media, and it still is now.   
   >   
   > What an insult to Pankhurst it is, to speak of putting a statue of her   
   > outside parliament, in SUPPORT of   
   >   
   > - that shitty institution whose role it is to legitimise the   
   > 'government' (for many MPs in return for cheap cigarettes and relatively   
   > small amounts of money in Channel Islands bank accounts.)   
   >   
   > - to legitimise that 'government', whose role it is to administer   
   > certain bureaucratic and public-relations jobs on behalf of the real   
   > government, the government of mass-murdering billionaire-bracket private   
   > business interests.   
   >   
   > It is disgusting to think of a statue of her, supporting the foul   
   > institution of parliament and presenting it as so responsive to radical   
   > popular criticism   
   >   
   > Parliament is nothing of the kind. It is a part of the executive of the   
   > State, just as the judiciary is. A State that is wholly owned by private   
   > interests, being their weapon.   
   >   
   > For a time, Sylvia Pankhurst knew the above and said it.   
   >   
   > If there is going to be a statue of her, it would be better if it showed   
   > her firing a machine gun towards the houses of parliament.   
   >   
   > For some of her most radical writings, see:   
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   > See also:   
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   Forgive my confusion, but isn't Mrs Pankhurst best known for wanting   
   women to be able to vote for MPs rather then to machine gun them?   
      
   Steve   
      
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