Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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there's no love too small
in her pj's
Mr.Bishie
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Laurie Penny is Noel Edmonds!
Deal, or no deal?
Mr.Bishie
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In firky's dreams
equationgirl
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More importantly, how does one obtain a horcrux? It could be handy to have one...
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Bad firky.Actually that one is below the belt even for me
DaveCinzano
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There is some truth in what I said though, she ignored the advice of several mental health professionals.
equationgirl
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You're right, she did - for an article.
What has she done since in the name of disability activism?
Mr.Bishie
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Coined a couple of hashtags?
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I'm sure she's singlehandedly changed the plight of those with disabilities in the UK then.
Mr.Bishie
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Yep! Hadn't you heard?
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No, didn't get that twitter communique. My bad. I hang my head in shame.
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Congratulations Mr Bishie, you won a prize for posting the 10,000th post (above) on this thread.That comes up in top spot on a google search
I don't know what the prize is but I'm sure LP will personally present it to you
Mr.Bishie
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Congratulations Mr Bishie, you won a prize for posting the 10,000th post (above) on this thread.
I don't know what the prize is but I'm sure LP will personally present it to you
Woohoo!
She asked me to delete a photo that I took once - on a demo in Brighton!
But here's one I took earlier, with rollie attitude!
elbows
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Argh I forgot all about her! Could have been vaguely interesting if she hadnt imploded so quickly, although Im not entirely sure how well I remember that trainwreck tv.
cesare
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To be fair, active participation in electoral politics will always be a compromise (and/or machiavellian) position for anarchists. How could it be otherwise? That's not to say that there aren't good reasons for occasionally doing so especially at local rather than national level, but it's more of a Marx/anarchist hybrid. I can see why many anarchists would just reject it entirely, iyswim.
And in the context of discussing LP's flim-flamming between one reformist (at best) statist party to another, it seems entirely reasonable (to me) to question whether she's an anarchist *at all* of whatever flavour.
She's an anarchist, in the sense that she tends to readily support movements whose only unifying feature is a hash tag. Apparently this makes them 'non- hierarchical', inclusive and demotic; or so she claims. This notion relies on the conceit that we're witnessing a new phenomena of 'web dissent'...which seems to involve a bunch of middle class faux-radicals trying to look committed by competing to post the wittiest and hippest slogans which proclaim their life-long resistance to bourgeois capitalism.
This suits her down to the ground. The emphasis on the lack of structure or hierarchy saves her from ever having to endorse or commit to a definite position or policy and gives her the opportunity to remain perpetually in opposition to whatever she wants while promoting her 'work' and log-rolling on behalf of other wonderfully 'talented' activists. We see this, and particularly her lack of traditional politics, when she is called upon to defend or justify a stance. Her approach takes two typical forms: scream "racist!"; scream "misogynist"
That this whole enterprise is basically an attempt at the viral marketing of a small collective of deluded, pointless and apolitical 'creatives' seems lost on her...and her admirers. Equally absent is any acknowledgement of the enormous irony which allows her to monopolise the commentary through her access to the MSM while always stressing the lack of leadership or figureheads within these movements...the most she seems to do is suggest-in that gonzo self-depricating manner these people adopt- that her position, with due allowances for her privileged start in life, is ultimately down to her fromidible intelligence and talent.
I think the basic moves are: look out for a likely (and suitably hip and wholesome) campaign; appropriate; cash in.
If any of this is a 'flavour of anarchism', I'd suggest umami. Either that or something that relies on E numbers and a group of diners who've failed to spot the empress at the top of the table is butt-naked.
SpineyNorman
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Woohoo!
She asked me to delete a photo that I took once - on a demo in Brighton!
But here's one I took earlier, with rollie attitude!
Another thing I don't get about the trendies - why on earth would anyone in their right mind who can afford to buy straights smoke roll ups?
cesare
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Fewer chemicals and don't stink as much?
ReturnOfElfman
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They're better?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its a blatant affectation. Even lezzard is on the cutters choice- why not go whole hog and forgo the oysters and vodka and instead swap it for luncheon meat and tins of Ace cider
Blagsta
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they taste better
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yep, sorry SN I think you're talking tripe on this.
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