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Can you see the difference between a measurement of distance and the allocation of moral worth? A yardstick does the former; a revolutionary perspective is premised on the latter. Trying to force ultimately moral choices into the same category as feet and inches has been tried and found wanting...

...is not an objective viewpoint IMPOV. What would have been a better way to phrase that? now you seem to be saying that both the political compass, and the traditional left right spectrum are invalid yardsticks. Okay. So how do you measure the BNPs ideology, and decide they come up to the...

Fuck left and right and ideologies. Can we not all fight for some common sense in this upside down world?

They're a little less "right" (political compass in 5....4....)

Streathamite and I were discussing our own experiences too. Same thing, and those that did stay in post-Blair's demolition of any retence of socialism burned themselves out trying to keep their constituencies alive once the membership rolls started free-falling. Some haven't given up on politics...

Just travelling back from the LP conference. I know to some extent it's been the case for years, but this year more than ever it was like two entirely different political cultures meeting in parallel - on the one hand, the union fringes felt grounded, facing upto the urgency of the cuts and the...

could you expand on why you believe that by the early 1930s 'it was inevitable'?

They were part of a group of political and armed movements that pre-existed WW2 by several decades, so yes, they certainly helped to create the state of Israel. You keep making the assumption that the state of Israel only became an inevitability after world war 2. The reality (backed up by any...

not sure i agree with the race analysis tho - there are numerous white estates that have been abandoned to gangs and criminality for a really long time

but you've failed to demonstrate this. anyone can point to one or a spate of horrific crimes and point to a moral decline. people have been doing that for hundreds of years. lol, you have to think they're detritus or you're a RACIST!!!

Exactly and that laissez faire attitutude that says 'they'll grow out of it' is based on the notion of individual liberty overriding (working) class interest . The unconcious racism bit made me think about how youth are percieved/portrayed say in Eltham and how they are percieved in Tottenham.

re the last count in 2006: i'm sure there was something in the standard last year about this. i will have a look in the morning.

One figure mentioned by David Davis on Question Time was about 240 criminal gangs in London, substantially up from the last count in 2006. What I'm 'staggered about' is not just the numbers but their banal visciousness. Another 14 year old stabbed to death today. As the article points out the...

There is a notable rise in extreme right wing politics with idiots such as the Tea party in the US and our very own EDL. Don't ever become too comfortable with the thought of them being a bunch of unelectable thugs because there is an underling support by many who need a reason to blame someone...

Yeah, Harvey is on pretty good form ... http://davidharvey.org/2011/08/feral-capitalism-hits-the-streets/ Unless you mean the giant rabbit one ...

Also ... some good stuff in a similar vein from David Harvey. http://davidharvey.org/2011/08/feral-capitalism-hits-the-streets/

He is right of centre but is interested in actual journalism, that is using the position of access to the political class to reveal how it works and critically comment on it.

Nice post.

Some really good posts on here, esp. by PC and dlr. PC's point about neoliberal riots mirroring neoliberalism is spot on. In fact, I'd go further than saying "why should people give a shit about society if society doesn't give a shit about them." Neoliberalism in its current form in the UK has...

New campaign of Compass and its periphery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/31/public-jury-campaign-feral-elite Citizens jury in defence of the British public interest? Blah Signatories are a mixed bag too.