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

[Steel Icarus]

The ginger guy in the centre is the 22/3-year-old charging $5,000 exclusive of travel, food and expenses to give a talk about Occupy and anti-capitalism.

I suppose he would ALSO claim, "I WORK for a living!", eh.

 

[sihhi]

make it stop

OK, look away now, the last one here with Malcolm in red shirt:

Relevant for us is how in America with millions in poverty, these are some of the people dominating brain-heavy left publishing.

Malcolm Harris is from Palo Alto (median property value - $1.3m), and went to Palo Alto High School, which is something of a rarity in the United States, being a public school with an 11:1 pupil-teacher ratio... Rachel Rosenfelt went to the private Columbia-affiliated Barnard College. Atossa Abrahamian was apparently educated as some kind of haute-bourgeois throwback, first being educated in Geneva and then attending Columbia University. Sarah Leonard went to Columbia too

This is the kind of thing Laurie Penny is encouraging you to pay money to:



"I am a New Inquiry Subscription Drive video and you can too!"

but again some supposed leftist (US probably refering to Maoist Rebel News) idiot has attacked her on misogynistic grounds in the comments. Any useful criticism is killed dead again. (And yes like SN I am upset about the smearing of IWCA and the fact we can't get it together to be direct and non-sexist)

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm confused.

Perhaps the artist behind it, Molly Crabbapple, will help explain things:

"It's unconventional for an artist to go see history in person...."

Jesus, what a twat. Artists have been doing that for hundreds of years.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Well it doesn't. It looks like the sort of thing I tell my 9 year old off for writing her homework in. Obv I am a total fascist though.

Misogynist too, I shouldn't wonder.

 

[SpineyNorman]

make it stop

This is why we need the workers' bomb. Even if it doesn't bring about communism it would be guaranteed to kill a few of these cunts. What's a few billion lives worth of collateral damage when the positives are so great?

 

[sihhi]

I suppose he would ALSO claim, "I WORK for a living!", eh.

He does work for a living, he's a managing editor at New Inquiry.

He's also just lost his case over the 2011 Occupy New York protest, when 700 who blocked a motorway were arrested. He had tweeted “They tried to stop us, absolutely did not want us on the motorway” (released from Twitter's deep bowels by court order) even though his defence was that protestors were encouraged to go on the motorway by NYPD in how they were arranged, and not warned not to go on the motorway. He now faces 3 days' community service.

 

[Firky]

Anon mask hanging carefully within shot.

Hanging from a fucking gas hob. The obvious place to keep it safe.

 

[cesare]

Anon mask hanging carefully within shot.

And a scribble illustration.

 

[weepiper]

Anon mask hanging carefully casually within shot, as if artlessly flung aside, in the rush to make a cup of chai all breathless after a demo like.

 

[Steel Icarus]

He does work for a living, he's a managing editor at New Inquiry.

Up to the mountains and down to the villages with him and his ilk.

 

[Firky]

I thought she said she was smart?

 

[Firky]

And a scribble illustration.

Title: Misogyny

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

The ginger guy in the centre is the 22/3-year-old charging $5,000 exclusive of travel, food and expenses to give a talk about Occupy and anti-capitalism.

socialism is a hob nailed boot stamping on his face for eternity

 

[DotCommunist]

chances of a decent munch at that do: 0

I bet the cunts have mini fritters on cocktail sticks. Or organic shit, actual shit but made organically from chemical free bumholes. Mixed up with tamarind and grated yam then deep fried in a batter made from elephant spunk.

Fuck me,I'm so hungry I'd eat that right now

 

[ViolentPanda]

OK, look away now, the last one here with Malcolm in red shirt:

Fuck my old brown boots. What a smug-looking bunch of douchebags.

 

[sihhi]

Up to the mountains and down to the villages with him and his ilk.

If people are interested in him, he's the guy who started the rumour that Radiohead might be playing at the Occupy Wall Street, that got the music press, then Russell Simmons, then the mainstream press in a buzz and sent thousands of people to half-clog up the area. A nice idea and it sort of did the job but next time an actual left-wing band does intend to play somewhere at short notice, it'll be the boy who cried wolf, and makes your protest dependent on celebrities anyway.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Fuck my old brown boots. What a smug-looking bunch of douchebags.

and at the risk of sounding beanlike that's the US and they're all white?!

 

[ViolentPanda]

socialism is a hob nailed boot stamping on his face for eternity

Or the Workers' Zippo igniting his sidies.

 

[Steel Icarus]

That woman in the green dress could do with your old brown boots, seeing as she was so pretentious she didn't bother with such an earthy item as footwear.

 

[DotCommunist]

irony squared would be if radiohead played a gig at the wailing wall supported by bjork

 

[SpineyNorman]

Anon mask hanging carefully within shot.

Hanging from a fucking gas hob. The obvious place to keep it safe.

The shit scribbles at the back look like a fire hazard too.

 

[ViolentPanda]

and at the risk of sounding beanlike that's the US and they're all white?!

Yup. One could ask "what do you expect?", but that might be seen as unnecessarily cynical, or perhaps even racist by the lights of Laura and her haut bourgeois ilk.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Fuck my old brown boots. What a smug-looking bunch of douchebags.

It would actually be cathartic to run through there swinging a crowbar and screaming for justice

 

[ViolentPanda]

That woman in the green dress could do with your old brown boots, seeing as she was so pretentious she didn't bother with such an earthy item as footwear.

She's one of those "milk-white skin, red hair and redder lipstick" arty celtic maiden types, she'd probably re-purpose my boots as conceptual art and sell them to one of her friends for enough money to support her coke habit for 8 weeks.

 

[SpineyNorman]

The ginger guy in the centre is the 22/3-year-old charging $5,000 exclusive of travel, food and expenses to give a talk about Occupy and anti-capitalism.

 

[discokermit]

That woman in the green dress could do with your old brown boots, seeing as she was so pretentious she didn't bother with such an earthy item as footwear.

if she was in a sixties french film you'd of had a poster of her on your wall at university.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It would actually be cathartic to run through there swinging a crowbar and screaming for justice

Given the wooden floor, I think a handful of railroad spikes and a sledgehammer might be more appropriate.

 

[Steel Icarus]

if she was in a sixties french film you'd of had a poster of her on your wall at university.

I didn't go to university.

 

[Firky]

if she was in a sixties french film you'd of had a poster of her on your wall at university.

 

[discokermit]

I didn't go to university.

i was making jokey. to make general pointy.