User:Yozzer66

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Introducing Yozzer66

This user is a British citizen.

This user is of Welsh ancestry.

This user believes in the United Kingdom and does NOT support Welsh or Scottish Separatism or Irish Nationalism in Northern Ireland.

This user supports devolution, not dissolution

This user originates from South-West Lancashire.

This user lives in North Staffordshire.

This user has an academic degree in Modern History & Political Science.

This user was a post-graduate student at Keele University.

This user is interested in the European Labour Movement and Socialism.

This user is interested in the Russian Revolution

This user is interested in World War II.

This user is interested in comparative Communism.

This user is interested in philosophy.

This user is interested in existentialism.

"Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness

" - Simone De Beauvoir, French socialist, feminist & writer

This user is a Liberal Christian.

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This user is absolutely certain of the theory of evolution.

This user is interested in Protestantism.

This user affirms the tenants of Arminianism

RL	This user is on the religious left.

"Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the world, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem."

- William Blake, English poet, artist, engraver, and visionary

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user does NOT support abortion except when a woman's life is at serious risk.

Eu	This user does NOT support euthanasia.

This user is strongly opposed to all forms of eugenics.

This user does not believe in the existence of human races, except as a social construct.

This user supports antifa in combating fascism in both word and action.

This user opposes monarchism.

This user identifies as a Marxist.

"We can not go beyond Marxism because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engendered it.

" - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, author & Marxian humanist

According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-9.25) and
Social Libertarian (-2.31)

=	This user supports the Make Trade Fair campaign.

This user is an environmentalist.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

- H.G. Wells, English writer & socialist

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This user does not currently own a car and has always favoured public transportation.

This user is interested in public transport issues.

This user is interested in animal rights issues.

V	This user is a vegetarian.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist

This user enjoys Film, particularly Film Noir and Alfred Hitchcock.

This user enjoys indie rock.

This user enjoys folk music.

This user enjoys Country Music, especially Hank Williams and Johnny Cash.

This user plays Risk.

This user is married.

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This user is a father.

This user owns one or more dogs.

This user is
a Staffordshire Bull Terrier lover.

This user is
a Golden Retriever lover.

On Wikipedia and elsewhere, the celebral output of Yozzer66 is straddled by two different personas:

The Odious Oracle, a self-appointed arbitrator of good taste in music, film, books and the art of football.
The Red Ramrod, a liberal Christian, a Marxist humanist and an 'organic intellectual' continually politically engaged but striving to remain reflective at the same time.

The Cerebral Universe of Yozzer66:

1 Popular Music From 1954
2 Cinema
3 European Art, Literature & Classical Music
4 Religion & Philosophy
5 Public Policy
6 Industrial Relations
7 History & Politics
8 Local History
9 Football
10 Travel

[edit] Popular Music From 1954

(a) The Odious Oracle's Fav Musical Styles 1954 - 74:

(i) Rockabily
(ii) Girl Groups
(iii) Folk Revival
(iv) Southern Soul
(v) The British Invasion
(vi) Folk Rock
(vii) Psychedelic Rock
(viii) Country Rock
(ix) Singer Songwriter
(x) Glam Rock

(b) The Odious Oracle's Fav Musical Styles 1975 - 95

(i) British Pub Rock
(ii) Punk & New Wave
(iii) Post-Punk
(iv) Ska Revival
(v) Indie Rock / Pop
(vi) Alternative Rock
(vii) Alternative Rap & Trip Hop
(viii) Alternative Country Rock
(ix) Neo-Psychedelia
(x) Brit Pop

[edit] Cinema

(a) Film Noir
(b) Alfred Hitchcock
(c) British Cinema 1940 - 65:

(i) Key Directors - David Lean, Carol Reed, Michael Powell. (ii) Key Genres - Ealing Comedy, Hammer Horror, New Wave

(d) Contemporary Cinema

[edit] European Art, Literature & Classical Music

Fav Music (other than Mozart & Beethoven):

(i) Baroque (esp. Handel & Bach) (ii) National (esp. Dvorak & Bartok)

Fav Literature (other than Austen & Dickens):

(i) Romantic Poets (esp. Blake & Shelley) (ii) Russian Realism (esp. Dostoyevsky & Tolstoy)

Fav Art (other than Turner & Monet)

(i) Post-Impressionism (esp. Cezanne & Van Gogh) (ii) Fauvism (esp. Matisse & Derain)

[edit] Religion & Philosophy

(a) Pre-Enlightenment Christian Radicalism:

(i) The Apostle Paul (ii) Joachim of Fiore (iii) Fra. Dolcino (Franciscan) (iv) John Ziska (Taborite) (v) Muntzer (Anabaptist) (vi) Winstanley (Digger)

(b) Protestant Theology

(i) Arminianism (ii) English Disenters (iii) The Seekers - 'Free Christians' - Quakers & Unitarians (iv) General Baptists - Baptist New Connexion - Baptist Union (v) Methodist Lay Revivalist Movements esp. the Primitives and the Independent Methodist Connexion

(i) Existentialism (ii) Christan Existentialism (iii) Marxist Existentialism

(d) Post-Hegalian Radicalism (2):

(i) Marxism (ii) Marxian Humanism (iii) Liberation Theology

(e) Freudianism
(f) Ecologism

[edit] Public Policy

(a) Environment & Public Transport
(b) Social Housing
(c) State Education
(d) Mental Health
(e) Corporate Responsibility & Employment Policy
(f) Co-operatives & the Social Economy
(g) Fair Trade & World Development
(h) Animal Welfare

[edit] Industrial Relations

Marxists in academic IR (UK): Victor L. Allen, Richard Hyman, & John E. Kelly.

[edit] History & Politics

(a) The Historical Jesus
(b) Christian Political Radicals & the European Reformation
(c) Marxist Historians
(d) The Rise of Capitalism, Nationalism & their contradictions
(e) British Imperialism & Decolonisation
(f) European Labour Movements & Socialism
(g) Fascism, Resistance & WWII
(h) Revolution, Dissident Marxism & Comparative Communism

[edit] Local History

West Derby (hundred) of Lancashire:

Liverpool: Grand-parents and parents birthplace.
Billinge: My birthplace.
Ashton-in-Makerfield: My pre-school years.
St Helens: My father's workplace for 30+ years.
Huyton: My formative years.
Skelmersdale: Nearest town to the prison of my adolescence (Parbold)
Burscough: Next nearest town.
Ormskirk: Secondary school

Central & Northern Potteries, North Staffordshire:

Hanley: My first and second workplaces after graduating.
Northwood: The first home of my own.
Burslem: My first football season ticket (Port Vale F.C.)
Tunstall: My wife and step-daughter's home before we got together.
Sneyd Green: Our family home.
Smallthorne: The location of my son's primary school and my pub quiz team (Green Star Lions, North Staffs Sunday League Div. 1).

[edit] Football

Local Loyalties:

(i) Everton F.C. (Est. 1878) Goodison Park, Liverpool
(ii) Tranmere Rovers F.C. (Est. 1884) Prenton Park, Birkenhead
(iii) Port Vale F.C. (Est. 1876) Vale Park, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
(iv) Burscough F.C. (Est. 1946) Victoria Park, Burscough, Lancs
(v) Prescot Cables F.C. (Est. 1884) Valerie Park, Prescot, Merseyside
(vi) Skelmersdale United F.C. (Est. 1882) A.T. Stadium, Skelmersdale, Lancs

My Post-War Footballing Artists:

(i) The Magical Magyars (early - mid 1950s) esp. Jozsef Bozsik (Right Half) of Budapesti Honved.
(ii) The Czechoslovakian side (early 1960s) esp. Josef Maspust (Left Half) of Dukla Praha.
(iii) The 'Total Football' Dutch (the 1970s) esp. Johan Cruyff (Centre Forward) of Ajax Amsterdam.