Marxist, eco-socialist, cultural egalitarian. Against this culture of human sacrifice.
Swansea, Wales
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Got my copy of Futures of Socialism through today, which I happen to be in! My piece explores some epistemological underpinnings of our current sense of historical motion and argues, via Lukacs, for a Marxist humanist assault on reification. Cheers @graceblakeley and @VersoBooks!
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I think if you have a decent theory of politics, of the left-right spectrum, of the meaning of ‘conservatism’, ‘liberalism’, ‘socialism’, then neg. polarisation is a useful high-level ‘mapping’ tool. Doesn’t absolve you of digging into the detail, but it’s a good starting point.
This is an admission of low intelligence, from one of the most admired British conservatives of my lifetime.
Basically: “I hold my views on the basis of negative polarisation”. It’s like saying you oppose public ownership because marine le pen supports it. Daft.
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The wording that’s always used re a two-state solution: ‘a safe and secure Israel alongside a free and independent Palestine’, meaning ‘I couldn’t care less whether Palestine is safe is secure’. Also implies you don’t care whether Israel is free or independent btw!
I am ruling out our party entering into a national partnership with any party that is committed to a dangerous and antisemitic policy like the Green Party’s.
Here is my letter to the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies of British Jews 👇
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Mmm, communist dinner
What’s happening in Paris and Milan is no surprise to anyone who has spent time around young people in Europe during the 2010s:
Virtually all of them were working on their 4th masters degree in social welfare, were unmarried, attended communist dinners every night, and regularly participated in riots.
Now the economy is suddenly transforming and they have nothing to show for it.
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Brave, audacious stuff
🚨 NEW: John Healey has ruled out raising capital gains tax in the Budget over fears that rich people will leave the UK
[@thetimes]
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I suppose ultimately, neoliberalism is just the alliance of conservatism and liberalism against social democracy and socialism…
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"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?"
@ZackPolanski is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK?
And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"
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They don’t seem to understand (or perhaps they do) how exquisitely cruel it is to turn someone’s sole expression of joy/humanity/creativity, which in reality disabled people only pursue by scrimping and saving on health and energy, into a cudgel to beat money out of them with.
These people all assume that if you become too disabled to work, you literally disappear from the world and no longer exist. So any presence on social media, any display of joy, any hobby - it is all used to justify accusations of "fraudster" and "scammer"
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whenever i see this loser, i think about the bit in 'Sexual Desire' where he, well, just read it lmfao
Roger Scruton recalls the exact moment he became a conservative during the 1968 Paris riots:
“When I looked down the street and saw all these rowdy students throwing stones at policemen, I just said to myself, ‘Whatever they believe, I believe the opposite.’”
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I honestly think there should be laws against encouraging a person’s benefits to be taken away. It’s ableist hate speech at the end of the day, consciously intended to do serious financial harm.
StatsForLefties is a well run account. Professional graphics, very regular content, high engagement.
It should be reason enough to strip the out of work benefits from the person who runs it.
She is obviously talented and very clearly isn’t incapable of employment.
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This is a much needed initiative - been very striking over last 12 months that the English left intellectual infrastructure is too oriented on Labour and its Your Party spin out. If Greens aspire to build mass party they need also some spaces to develop thinking.
📰 IMPORTANT CALL OUT, PLEASE SHARE:
The Grain, a Magazine for eco-socialist debate & discussion in the Green Party, will be launching soon.
If you are interested in submitting an essay, report, or opinion piece - or joining the editorial or socials teams - please get in touch.
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If they aren't coordinating under an external organisational apparatus it's not entryism, it's just left wing people participating in politics, which I know is considered improper in British public life but still
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“Andy Burnham.. needs to explain to communities their bins won't be collected, social services will collapse, libraries will be closed, because he's more worried about defending the genocide he's arming than working with Green council” — @ZackPolanski
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.@ZackPolanski "I support everyones right to self determination but not at the expense of another group because thats racist"
Spot on. If self-determination requires the dispossession/displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing/colonisation
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this is great from @ZackPolanski. burnham seeking to collapse services people rely on every day in defence of a genocide is an extreme and morally corrupt position and every green is right to define it as such.
.@ZackPolanski: "Andy Burnham.. needs to explain to communities their bins won't be collected, social services will collapse, libraries will be closed, because he's more worried about defending the genocide he's arming than working with Green councillors"
Well said Zack.
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Representatives from eight Israeli parties participating in an election debate on Israeli channel JNS all unanimously rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state
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Looks to me like Labour have made a single Green Councillor the kingmaker on Barnet council, and she is refusing to relent on the Zionism is Racism motion.
Epic 4d chess here from Burnham and his reactionary cabinet. Brilliant, genius stuff.
So this may be a challenge for @UKLabour
In Barnet, the borough with the highest percentage of Jews in the country, a single Green councillor holds the balance of power.
She has been more inclined to back Labour which has an equal number of seats to the Conservatives. So it’s a Labour minority controlled borough.
She has just come out FOR the Zionism is Racism motion with a nonsensical statement that fire in for pages.
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This is huge.
Time for all British nationals who served in the IDF to be investigated over possible involvement in war crimes.
🚨NEW: After a months-long investigation, we can reveal that a British national who posed in front of a burning school in Gaza fought for Israel and may have participated in war crimes.
An exclusive with @declassifiedUK colleagues:
declassifieduk.org/revealed-…
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It's perfectly in order to say you think the Zionism is Racism motion was unwise, ill-timed or what you will. The trouble is that if you do not say that what's happened since is a mammoth bad-faith campaign of hysteria and intolerance, you are contributing to that campaign.
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