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A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity Marc Mulholland evaluates Karl n Letters and debate n Labour NEC elections Kautsky’s thesis on the nomadic n Scottish independence origins of class and state n Socialist Party (Netherlands) No 1320 October 22 2020 Towards a mass Communist Party £1/€1.10 Covid-19 set to destroy the Trump administration? weekly 2 October 22 2020 1320 worker LETTERS really understand the problem that sugar Since the 1960s, public health bodies have law, for the exclusion of transsexuals from astronauts if they like, and I will do my Letters may have been shortened because of poses to public health, and the aetiology advised us that “the fundamental cause some ‘single-sex services’ - for instance, best to accommodate them. But not to the space. Some names of obesity, we need to move beyond of obesity and overweight is an energy in refuges and prisons. extent of signing in my blood that they may have been changed such notions from basic physics as the imbalance between calories consumed In the past two years there had been a actually are what they identify as … the first law of thermodynamics, caloric and calories expended” (World Health ‘consultation’ on the table from the Tory ‘self-identifying woman’s’ freedoms are density and so on, and appreciate that Organisation, April 1 2020). In other government, as part of their previous impinging on the freedoms of girls and Irrationality sugar and refined carbohydrates have words, from the point of view of obesity, efforts, begun under David Cameron, women to their own spaces, privacy and I have two corrections to claims made very specific biochemical effects on the the official scientific dogma is that a to show that they are ‘enlightened’ and self-expression.” by James Linney in his latest letter on human metabolism that the two other calorie is a calorie and the fundamental ‘modern’, to amend equalities and gender- So here we see a rather strange the subject of obesity (October 15). He macronutrients - fat and protein - do not. question is the number of calories that one recognition laws in a similar way, that confluence between the ‘socially writes that I display an “uncanny ability to In particular, by stimulating the release of consumes, compared to the number of would allow transsexuals who have not conservative, but economically radical’ misunderstand or misrepresent what he is the hormone, insulin, a diet high in sugar calories that one expends. yet gone through the protracted and often Galloway and a brand of feminism in the saying”. and carbohydrates will tend to cause the The work of Yalow and Berson painful process of gender-reassignment, left and labour movement that, for all the Unfortunately, he bases this on partial body to increase its reserves of fat tissue on insulin, followed by Reaven on including that involving surgery, to rhetoric against ‘identity politics’ that we quotes from my letter, taken somewhat and inhibit the mobilisation of those metabolic syndrome, show this dogma be recognised legally as being of their see from some of those denouncing the out of context. In particular, I did not stored fatty acids for use as energy - over to be nonsense. Yet, due to a combination changed gender/sex on the basis of self- ‘delusion’ of transsexuals about having imply that he attributed obesity simply to time pushing it towards insulin resistance, of commercial and professional vested identification. However, under Johnson changed their gender/sex, exhibit a prime “biological maladaptation by humans”. obesity and diabetes. interests, and professional scientific the Tories have predictably retreated from characteristic of identity politics - smears What James Linney did claim in a letter to James Linney’s main omission in his conservatism, the dogma continues to these promises and Johnson’s government that anyone who does not share their this paper is that humans, in their hunter- correspondence - and this is excusable, stand and misguide every public health now echoes the transphobes in all parties particular form of chauvinist hostility to gatherer past, evolved under conditions of given that that this discussion has been response to the obesity and diabetes who demand the exclusion of trans another group is hostile to the group they caloric scarcity and therefore acquired a taking place in the letters page of the epidemics. women from ‘women’s spaces’ in the identify with. propensity to store energy in fat tissue, as a Weekly Worker - is to overlook the From a political point of view, there is name of supposedly protecting women Thus trans-exclusionist feminists survival mechanism. Under the conditions damaging metabolic effects of modern no willingness in any capitalist society to against predatory male sex offenders who frequently accuse those who do not share of widespread caloric availability that exist commercial processed foods, beyond truly address on a wide scale the real roots decide to ‘identify’ as women. their exclusionism, whether male or under modern capitalism - so his argument sugar and fructose. Quite apart from the of the epidemic of obesity and metabolic What is more odd is that her arguments female, of ‘misogyny’ (hatred of women). went - what was a useful adaptation for fact that carbohydrates are broken down dysfunction, as any one of the measures have been accepted by quite a few on It only takes a moment’s thought to hunter-gatherers in caloric scarcity can into potentially metabolically damaging necessary to address the problem would the left and have become a source of deduce that there is no logical reason to manifest itself as the tendency towards simple sugars in the human digestive be disastrous for the business models significant divisions among those who are believe that those who defend the rights obesity observed today. I disagreed with tract, the consumption of processed and bottom lines of the multi-billion- otherwise opponents of the Labour right, of transsexuals should have any reason this argument and, perhaps unfortunately carbohydrates (such as refined flour) dollar agrifood (disease-causing) and its pro-Nato militarism, pro-Zionism and whatsoever to hate women. It is just as from James Linney’s point of view, acts to stimulate the secretion of glucose- pharmaceutical (symptom-treating) neoliberalism. In Labour there are groups intellectually lazy and insulting as the summarised this supposed tendency dependent insulinotropic polypeptide sectors. like Women’s Place, and the LGB Alliance canard that those who are critical of the as being a biological maladaptation to (GIP) in the upper intestine. GIP acts as Pioneering researchers and doctors (with the ‘T’ - for ‘Trans’ - conspicuously oppressive behaviour and activities of conditions of caloric surplus. a signal to the pancreas to release insulin, like Julius Bauer and Raymond Greene, missing), which contain leftwing people Zionist Jews towards Palestinians hate In the second part of his letter, he putting the body into a fat storage mode, who did not yet have access to the work of who have historically fought hard against Jewish people in general. writes that “the addition of sugar to the with all the consequences that this has for Yalow and Berson on insulin, nonetheless Blairism. It is a tragic regression that such A classic manifestation of identity majority of processed foods makes them insulin resistance, obesity and diabetes. understood that obesity had a hormonal people find common cause with the likes politics, apart from clear cases of outright both calorie-dense and nutritionally Similarly, if he has not done so basis and could not be understood or of Rowling. separatism by an oppressed stratum under poor”. Unfortunately, he makes a already, James Linney may find it explained through the concepts of 19th- This transphobic trend seems to have capitalism (which is generally mistaken notable scientific error and one scientific interesting to read the recent study titled century thermodynamics. However, revived as a result of the adaptation of and counterproductive), is when strata omission here. He has once again fallen ‘Diet modulates brain network stability, thanks to the actions of unscrupulous part of the left to rightwing populism that are not oppressed accuse members into the trap, laid for us by 19th-century a marker for brain ageing, in young individuals like Ancel Keys, and the and its ‘working class’ pretentions - to of a stratum that does suffer oppression calorimetry and thermodynamics, of adults’ (pnas.org/content/117/11/6170). capacity of commercial interests to pollute Trump and Brexit. Though the positions or bigotry simply for demanding basic attributing the metabolic damage caused This study found that destabilisation of both scientific research and public health of individuals may vary considerably rights. So it is when Zionist Jews smear by a macronutrient to its energy content brain networks correlates with poorer policy-making, the understanding of the on such things, there does seem to be their Palestinian victims (and their or density. Calorimetry tells us that sugar cognition and accelerates with insulin aetiology of metabolic dysfunction has considerable overlap between those on sympathisers) as ‘anti-Semites’ for has four calories per gram, whereas fat resistance. Significantly, the stability of actually regressed in the 60 or more years the left who backed Brexit and showed demanding their rights. So it is when the has nine. By this measure, fat has a higher brain networks is increased when the since Bauer and Greene were active. softness on Trump, and those echoing JK small, vulnerable minority of transsexuals energy density than sugar, and so, if brain uses fatty acids (ketones) as a fuel This scientific fiasco, with its disastrous Rowling’s bigotry today. (and their sympathisers), demanding energy density itself is the problem, then source and decreases when the brain uses consequences for public health, stands as On August 17, a US Federal equal treatment to members of the sex a diet higher in fat should naturally lead sugar (glucose) as such a source.

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