The Death Agony of Capitalism

There are approximately 600 or so card-carrying supposedly revolutionary Marxists in Ireland.

It´s sod´s law that you end up talking to a member of the SWP (Socialist Workers Party) from Phibsboro on a bus journey from Rio Grande to Ushuaia.

To start with, the journey from Rio Gallegos to Rio Grande encompasses, not one, not two, not three but four border crossings! Which is an incredible pain in the ass and a ridiculous exercise in officialdom...

Out of Argentina, into Chile, out of Chile and back into Argentina...

In the space of about 4 hours.

The old passport took a bit of a hammering.

We finally got to Rio Grande and I was approaching 20 hours of bus station - bus - bus station - bus existence.

Then the rickety old bus to Ushuaia.

The snow began to fall heavily and the pitch black outside provided a canvas for the falling snow as the bus skidded it´s merry way down south.

So yeah, the world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterised by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat.

We never did get past that.