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	Socialist Party of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SPGB believes that the only way socialism (its term for a society without property, money, classes, or the state - what is more commonly called communism by most Marxists) will come about is for a majority of people, on a worldwide basis, to come to believe in the superiority of this social system.
		They endorse the theory of impossibilism, and favour winning power through elections, although in the current situation their main function is as a propaganda group to try to raise consciousness.
		In contrast to Leninists, they believe that it is possible to make the transition from capitalism to the complete abolition of the state immediately that the majority decide to do it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Great_Britain (752 words)

	Independent, The (London): America at war: Easy words can't obscure the choice ahead
		When Americans show signs of wanting to hand back their truncheon, we accuse them of retreating into isolationism and fret that they won't be there when we need them.
		Impossibilism is not the basis for a working relationship at such a time.
		One of the curses of this age is a neglect for the ties that bind us to even the recent past.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010916/ai_n14420082 (1092 words)

	100%: The Story Of A Patriot by Upton Sinclair eBook by BookRags
		Life was an endless struggle between the haves and the have-nots, and the question of how the have-nots were to turn out the haves was called “tactics.” When you talked about “tactics” you used long technical terms which made your conversation unintelligible to a plain, ordinary mortal.
		It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist, Communist-Socialist and Socialist-Syndicalist.
		In company such as this Peter’s education for the role of detective was completed by force, as it were.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5776/63.html (450 words)

	Socialist History Project
		A short history of Canadian Impossibilism, with selections from the press of the Socialist Party of Canada and the One Big Union, 1906-1938
		To make life worse for Impossibilism, the party expelled their veteran parliamentarian, “Big Jim” Hawthornthwaite, on the grounds he was speculating in coal properties.
		In January 1918 the BC Federation of Labor formed the Federated Labour Party which drew away most of the parliamentary-oriented Socialists and a new group of younger men and women rose to prominence.
	www.socialisthistory.ca /Docs/Imposs/Impossibilists1.htm (2811 words)

	Modal Bloopers
		But given impossibilism, believing someone believes impossibilities should be a special case of believing an impossibility.
		Another stratagem is to abandon impossibilism about belief in favor of another propositional attitude that resembles belief (Marcus 1990).
		Ruth Marcus (1983) bases her impossibilism on the principle that a belief attribution is defeated when it is discovered that no state of affairs could make the belief true.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~rasoren/papers/modalbloopers.html (8419 words)

	One Big Union - WSPUS
		The most dramatic event was the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 and for radical workers the most hopeful was the formation of the One Big Union Movement.
		The OBU was a child of Impossibilism, most of the important leaders were members of the SPC and the rival Social Democrats had few representatives of importance.
		The Preamble and Constitution were written by Socialists as were other influential documents of the movement.
	www.worldsocialism.org /usa/wiki/index.php?title=One_Big_Union (441 words)

	Dissensus - The illusion of choice, the choice of illusion
		The tricky thing is how you move from within the ideological structure where nothing is possible to outside it, when everything is. I think that this breach is what Badiou means by an 'event'.
		Fiction (esp those called 'science fiction' and 'Horror') is obv also crucial in generating alternatives to ideology's impossibilism.
		I don't have any kids myself, but the thought occurs to me that to have children would make it even more difficult to resist ideology, or do anything to act against capitalism.
	www.dissensus.com /showthread.php?t=589&page=2 (3677 words)

	Socialism Today - The psychology of the witch-hunt
		As with McCarthyism, the attack was ideological, with socialism and socialists the main target, inflamed by a media which carried lurid, unattributed and false accusations against the left.
		As in Salem, the preposterous became the norm: building houses was 'irresponsible'; creating jobs and defending services became, in Kinnock's verbiage, 'impossibilism'; large meetings, democratically organised, were forums for 'intimidation' by the left.
		Based on a hodge-podge of unidentified 'witnesses', the committee submitted a report to the Labour Party National Executive (NEC) who hailed it as a devastating indictment of the Liverpool Labour Party.
	www.socialismtoday.org /51/crucible.html (1899 words)

	New Statesman: The rough drafts of official history - United Kingdom government publications of 20th century activities ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although it was clear that the borough of Bethnal Green's failure to provide a crush barrier, handrails on the staircase and adequate lighting were the major factors in the disaster, the home secretary made it clear he wanted "no scapegoats" - a mandarin tag meaning that officialdom did not want to identify root causes.
		Accordingly, the Home Office civil servants used a species of logical impossibilism to defend the borough.
		Since it could not be proved by mathematical logic that a series of foreseeable precautionary measures would certainly have prevented an accident, hey presto, nobody was to blame.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4468_129/ai_59479707 (1493 words)

	John Quiggin: Science and ideology
		In my view, the position on the left has generally improved over the past decade.
		For example, the kind of economic 'impossibilism' as in "Demand the Impossible" that was prevalent right through the 60s and 70s has now disappeared almost completely - it's the left that now worries about where the money will come from.
		Anti-science trends like postmodernism and New Age philosophy, which were once seen as leftwing, have now made their peace with capitalism.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/000819.html (370 words)

	GiF.Ru – Art of Russia>> Georgy Litichevsky
		He has chosen the stylistics of mimicry to real old paintings, but his personages were still the heroes of school-folklore – Przhevalsky with his horse, Krylov with the small dog Mosjka, and Michurin with apples.
		Simultaneously together with Farid Bogdalov he worked out the art program of "impossibilism" (impossible art), based on the idea of the impotent character of contemporary art.
		BOLI (BOgdalov and LItichevsky) urged the artists to appeal to a new kind of audience (action in the Zoo).
	www.gif.ru /eng/people/litichevsky (610 words)

	Dissensus - Zizek's Leninism
		The concrete political point is that basing things on the Possible is to do nothing to challenge the existing order; very much to the contrary, it is reproducing that order, whose principal power lies in determining what counts as Possible.
		Power tends to move from Impossibilism to Inevitablism, from 'That could never happen', to 'of course that was going to happen, but...', a priori screening out the possibility of change.
		Secondly, I am really not all that keen on the idea of "novelty" at all - I prefer to judge things on their results.
	www.dissensus.com /showthread.php?t=934 (2573 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Edinburgh Review on Surrealist Subversions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leaving the twentieth century, Franklin Rosemont notes the widespread and ongoing anti-capitalism protests with approval.
		As the impossible solutions of global capitalism become ever more absurd, the reasonable impossibilism of Surrealism seems ever more timely.
		If it is a truism to say that history is written by the winners, the history of Surrealism has largely been written by dealers and curators.
	slash.autonomedia.org /BookReviews/04/01/05/2157237.shtml (1302 words)

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	www.publicfinance.co.uk - Features - Comment – Riven to distraction, by David Lipsey
		Say what you like of Iain Duncan Smith, being too nice is most certainly not his problem.
		Then Labour had a set of policies that made sense only as part of a Trotskyite impossibilism, aimed, so one must assume, at heightening the contradictions in capitalism to usher in the revolution.
		The policies unveiled to widespread apathy at the Tory party conference may be right or wrong but few are actually insane.
	www.cipfa.org.uk /publicfinance/features_details.cfm?News_id=17725 (756 words)

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	Lords Hansard text for 25 Jun 1996 (160625-21)
		Then also it is argued that since NATO has the guns and the money and OSCE does not, OSCE command is impossible.
		This is pure "impossibilism": all that is needed is the agreement of the NATO signatories to place their assets--not their name--at the disposal of OSCE, and carry on from there.
		Of course the right organisation above all others would have been the UN direct.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960625/text/60625-21.htm (7873 words)

	SPGB Polemic - Withering Away of the State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		What does it mean in relation to the SPGB?
		Why didn't Coleman, in his section on Impossibilism, which dealt with the Party, name which of the clauses in the SPGB's DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES is one or the other, core or periphery?
		Crump is quite clear in asserting that the various groups could unite on the basis of a shared aim (the "core") even while differing on the question of means, a matter which he regards as secondary, i.e.
	www.spgb.org.uk /polemic%20withering.htm (1598 words)

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