User:Yozzer66

Introducing Yozzer66

This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website. This user has been a Proud Wikipedian since 12 November 2006. This editor is a Journeyman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge. This user has created 20 articles on Wikipedia. This user has created 30 userboxes This user has an academic degree in Modern History & Political Science. This user was a post-graduate student at Keele University. This user has had numerous articles published in newspapers and magazines This user originates from South-West Lancashire. This user is a member of WikiProject Merseyside This user lives in North Staffordshire. This user is of Welsh descent This user supports devolution, not dissolution This user believes that Nationalism is good for culture but bad for politics. According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-9.25) and Social Libertarian (-2.31) "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - English writer & socialist, H. G. Wells = This user supports the Make Trade Fair campaign. This user is an environmentalist. This user takes public transport 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." - Anglo-Irish dramatist & socialist, George Bernard Shaw This user is interested in Philosophy, particularly later modern Western philosophy This user is a Liberal Christian. This user is interested in Existentialism, particularly Christian existentialism "Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness " - French socialist, feminist & writer, Simone de Beauvoir This user believes that evolution doesn't have to conflict with Christianity. This user affirms the tenets 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." - English poet, artist, engraver, and visionary, William Blake This user opposes monarchism. This user does NOT support abortion except when a woman's life is at serious risk. Eu This user does NOT support euthanasia and is strongly opposed to all forms of eugenics. X This user does not believe in the existence of human races, except as a social construct. X This user supports antifa in combating fascism in both word and action. This user identifies as a Marxian Humanist. "We can not go beyond Marxism because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engendered it. " - French philosopher, author & Marxian humanist, Jean-Paul Sartre This user is a history buff. This user is interested in the Radical Reformation. This user is interested in Protestantism, particularly the English Dissenters 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 the Praxis Marxists in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This user loves Popular music with the exception of most Jazz, Heavy metal music, Disco and Electronica This user is a part of WikiProject Alternative music. This user enjoys Country Music, especially Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. This user enjoys Film, particularly Film Noir and Alfred Hitchcock. This user is attacking you with all three dice. dad This user is a married father of three. This user is owned by two rather possessive dogs. This user is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier lover. This user is a Golden Retriever lover. This user's entire personality can be summed up in a 56 userboxes!!!

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.

For current projects see:

• To Do List
• Userboxes

The Cerebral Universe of Yozzer66:

Popular Music From 1954

Home to Presley, Cash, Orbison, Perkins & Lewis

(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

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

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)

Religion & Philosophy

Antonio Gramsci

• (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 Dissenters (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

• (c) Post-Hegalian Radicalism (1):

(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

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

Industrial Relations

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

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

Local History

West Derby (hundred) of Lancashire:

• Liverpool: Grandparents 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 stepdaughter'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).

Football

Liverpool Pier Head

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

Budapest

(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.

Travel

Prague

Fav Destinations abroad:

• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Netherlands
• Switzerland