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

[DaveCinzano]

Any minute now an affinity group of dreadlocked laptoperati will rush in and CAPSLOCK-ON to the server.

 

[rekil]

Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the shift key pressed down here

 

[JimW]

Then comrades, come rally

Embiggen our type face

The Internationale

Is writ in upper case.

 

[weepiper]

Blocco maiuscole a trionferà,
Blocco maiuscole a trionferà,
Blocco maiuscole a trionferà,
Evviva il comunismo e la libertà!

 

[newbie]

Then comrades, come rally

Embiggen our type face

The Internationale

Is writ in upper case.

no it's not, you've been suckered into elitism by those with a vested interest in preserving the aristocratic power of the upper case

the caps
the caps
we've got to get rid of the caps

 

[magneze]

no it's not, you've been suckered into elitism by those with a vested interest in preserving the aristocratic power of the upper case

too right but you my friend have fallen into the trap of using punctuation division is exactly what they want dont fall for it

 

[DaveCinzano]

punctuation division

Is that the EDL elite?

 

[DotCommunist]

trying to think of a joe hill one...the capslock bosses killed you joe....

 

[newbie]

too right but you my friend have fallen into the trap of using punctuation division is exactly what they want dont fall for it

only primitivists and lifestylers believe it's possible to live under capsitalism without compromises, and that includes use of the comma.

 

[magneze]

capsitalism

 

[rekil]

 

[love detective]

sorry to but in on the excellent caps lock work, but Penny fans can catch her speaking at the Big Tent festival this weekend in Falkland

Along with Adam Ramsay who bills himself as a 'direct action specialist', she will be a panel member on a session entitled 'Dissent Entrepreneurs'

 

[TruXta]

'Dissent Entrepreneurs'

At least they're not shy about it.

 

[Riklet]

I keep reading that as dissident for some reason?

They wont play by the man's shift key rules.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Along with Adam Ramsay who bills himself as a 'direct action specialist',

 

[Riklet]

he's occupying the co-op sponsored big tent as we type.

survival rations of organic falafel & mineral water.

 

[rekil]

sorry to but in on the excellent caps lock work, but Penny fans can catch her speaking at the Big Tent festival this weekend in Falkland

Along with Adam Ramsay who bills himself as a 'direct action specialist', she will be a panel member on a session entitled 'Dissent Entrepreneurs'

Adam Ramsay is an aristocrat isn't he? With a gigantic family castle house thing and all that.

 

[BigTom]

Adam Ramsay is an aristocrat isn't he? With a gigantic family castle house thing and all that.

Yeah, daily mail did a proper hatchet job on him after the fortnum and mason arrests:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rew-castle-arrested-alongside-protesters.html

He's a sound & nice lad though, not to be considered in the same bracket as LP by any means imo. Direct action specialist lol. I wonder if he actually said that or if the organisers did.

 

[rekil]

That reminds me of this shithead the other day.

Happy Bastille Day. May you tear down the massive prisons in your own life, as a lead up for dragging your aristocrats through the streets

After you. Start with Ramsay pls?

 

[butchersapron]

"dissent entrepeneur"

 

[cesare]

"With the advent of this embryonic student movement, however, we are arguably seeing the rise of a form of contention predicated upon values of disintermediation and decentralised, entrepreneurial action undertaken by participants as ‘co-creators’ of the movement as opposed to members-as-consumers who are directed to act by an organisational oligarchy"

Blimey.

 

[frogwoman]

"dissent entrepeneur"

make money flogging a che guevara t-shirt

 

[love detective]

"we are arguably seeing the rise of a form of contention predicated upon values of disintermediation and decentralised, entrepreneurial action undertaken by participants as ‘co-creators’"

the neo-liberalising of dissent continues apace, for some time now it had seemed to me to have adopted the practices of neo-liberalism, and now with that process so far gone it's also adopting its rhetoric - Penny is recuperating neoliberalism!

 

[tufty79]

i witnessed an excruciating exchange in our house the other day.

someone was wearing this t-shirt*:

and as a result of a slightly garbled conversation, 'random visitor x' is going back to russia under the impression that our laura's the saviour/future of journalism and the left

*as an endorsement of LP.

 

[Delroy Booth]

Speaking of neo-liberalism eating radical politics and shitting it out, there's also this http://farleftfashion.tumblr.com/ which I keep hoping is ironic but it's blatantly not.

 

[love detective]

 

[rekil]

'Clare Solomon - radical former ULU President who put looking fabulous at the heart of dissent.'

.

...

 

[Captain Hurrah]

wtf.

 

[DotCommunist]

what is Ken doing on a tumblr page about fashion ?

 

[Blagsta]

what is Ken doing on a tumblr page about fashion ?

What's he doing on a page about the far left?