Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[butchersapron]

http://nothingiseverlost.wordpress.com/

Unreadable. What's wrong with paragraphs?

Communisn't.

I saw a communess out and about this morning.

 

[rekil]

I saw a communess out and about this morning.

The Barefoot Communessa.

 

[Balbi]

Twitter informs me that The Unsinkable Molly Crabapple and LP are currently doing cigarettes in a cafe, it's LP's first time for that and therefore she must be in Europe.

Thanks twitter.

 

[rekil]

So shit.

Help, where is the austerity? Are you a golden dawn?

 

[butchersapron]

Wow, i was pretty close with my list. Note the absence of terms to allow these clowns to talk to normal people about how austerity is effecting them, what community/work based resistances have developed - what they're based on etc. But just ANARCHISTS.

 

[JimW]

Pictured cropped oddly - that full question reads "May I draw you... ...into the blackhole-like vortex of my transnational egotism?"

 

[rekil]

Come and sup the piss of off-grid go-getters filtered through the daft sock of conceited liberalism.

 

[DotCommunist]

it won't be france, those bastards went with the smoking ban some years ago. No gaulloisse with your crepe these days

 

[Brixton Hatter]

germany

 

[DaveCinzano]

A bitte irony

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I've only just got round to reading the 'Laurie Penny' article in the Workers' Girder - great stuff! Congratulations.

http://proletariandemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/workers-girder-issue-11.pdf

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Help, where is the austerity?

 

[ViolentPanda]

who is m.? Molly?

Are you calling butch a Molly?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Wow, i was pretty close with my list. Note the absence of terms to allow these clowns to talk to normal people about how austerity is effecting them, what community/work based resistances have developed - what they're based on etc. But just ANARCHISTS.

TBF, it's of a piece with her non-nuanced perspective on politics in general.

 

[articul8]

Are you calling butch a Molly?

Molly Maguire

 

[butchersapron]

Should've joined the labour party.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Should've joined the labour party.

Didn't Blair n Brown put a fair bit of money Pinkertons' way?

 

[DaveCinzano]

WHO ARE THOSE GUYS?!

 

[rekil]

They roped some poor mug into doing a load of work for them, for nothing one assumes, for the sheer glory of it all, and now he's gone and lost his iphone.

We would really like to fundraise to get Yiannis a new IPhone - he’s as financially precarious as any young person in Greece and as a journalist he can’t really function without one. We can’t afford to buy him one outright, but we will both be contributing. Anything you can donate, however big or small, won’t solve the Eurozone crisis, but it will go a small way towards financing independent journalism in Greece. Anything extra that we raise over the cost of a phone will go towards a plane ticket so that Yiannis can come to the book launch in London in September.

Stinks.

 

[Idris2002]

They roped some poor mug into doing a load of work for them, for nothing one assumes, for the sheer glory of it all, and now he's gone and lost his iphone.

Stinks.

Hang on, an iPhone shouldn't be that expensive for someone on Penny's salary, surely?

 

[DotCommunist]

get crabby to flog a sketch maybe?

 

[rekil]

get crabby to flog a sketch maybe?

Or dip into that 65k she made on kickstarter? Or ask the random house publisher wanker or even 'the rents' to sort it? If it actually happened at all.

 

[fractionMan]

They roped some poor mug into doing a load of work for them, for nothing one assumes, for the sheer glory of it all, and now he's gone and lost his iphone.

Is that quote for real?

 

[rekil]

Is that quote for real?

Believe.

http://www.penny-red.com/post/26693844345/emergency-fundraising-help-a-greek-journalist

 

[grit]

Believe.

http://www.penny-red.com/post/26693844345/emergency-fundraising-help-a-greek-journalist

Thats fucking horrific.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's it exactly. I lost the argument to shelf her book in the fiction section of the Hyrda bookshop.

I asked in there today about the Laurie Penny book. Much hilarity ensued

The counter-chap did mention he had unilaterally put Bone's biography in the fiction section, and seemed miffed that apparently no one had noticed this small act of autonomous defiance

 

[fractionMan]

Believe.

http://www.penny-red.com/post/26693844345/emergency-fundraising-help-a-greek-journalist

*barf*

 

[audiotech]

Molly Maguire

Molly Maguires please.

 

[articul8]

But a singular one would be a...?

 

[audiotech]

....secret member of the Molly Maguires. Name unknown.