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

[Favelado]

I would hazard a guess that Penny has hardly taken any drugs in her life - doesn't stop her desperately trying to write dramatically about it from a falsified position of being more personally involved/informed, but then again that's her all over isn't it, whatever the topic

It's easy to do the drugs bit of the role, I bet she has.

 

[J Ed]

Oh god, now I remember when she was tweeting about how she smoked weed with rich people as if she was uncovering the great conspiracy that rich people take drugs too

Which is a bit confusing in and of itself, I thought private schools were full of drugs, she must have seen plenty of other posh people taking them?

 

[Favelado]

Respect for having a dealer whose stuff is so good his 4 dollar pills last the entire night. Not easy to find.

 

[love detective]

It's easy to do the drugs bit of the role, I bet she has.

You may be right, but to me her character/personality doesn't come across as the type who could handle losing what little control they have over their own sense of self. Far too naturally paranoid, needy, emotionally fragile and lacking in self confidence (disguised by huge dollops of surface level extreme self confidence) to be comfortable with purposefully & regularly bringing on any kind of significant & prolonged altered state that she can't control

Although I guess there's plenty of people that fit that description that do, but her, nah it doesn't come across like that's the case

 

[love detective]

Respect for having a dealer whose stuff is so good his 4 dollar pills last the entire night. Not easy to find.

I was going to comment on that as well - back in early 90's when e's were £20/25 and nothing like as cut up with other shit as they are now, you could maybe get away with one lasting the lion's share of the night, but now?

The only drug that was ever capable of lasting the whole night (and usually far too long!) that you could get for under a fiver was acid

 

[Belushi]

I thought private schools were full of drugs, she must have seen plenty of other posh people taking them?

Some of the biggest caners I've ever met have been ex-public schoolboys. Usually those types go into the city but when they decide to drop out they do so with a vengence.

 

[ymu]

Money, innit.

 

[treelover]

The tea thing is really fucking annoying.

Trendy teashops are springing up everywhere, loads in Manchester

 

[DotCommunist]

its self consciously little bit orwell with his samovar and his grassing

 

[equationgirl]

I make tea, because it's what you do at times like this, and because it's what small British women do when they are considering what form vengeance will take.

This bit really wound me up. As if she's taking vengeance on the Greek police ffs.

 

[J Ed]

Has Paul Mason lost his mind?

He's just hanging out

 

[love detective]

just ordinary working class people coming together in their communities to serve their own collective benefit - that's what Penny is embedded in right now

(plus some of them, like soya for example, are ready to take on the big cock boys)

 

[J Ed]

just ordinary working class people coming together in their communities to serve their own collective benefit - that's what Penny is embedded in right now

(plus some of them, like soya for example, are ready to take on the big cock boys)

Come the revolution, anyone who refuses to dye their hair will be immediately shot as a counter-revolutionary

 

[DotCommunist]

galloway has nicked all the Just for Men to keep his beard in the style it was once accustomed

 

[J Ed]

https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/323265018151985152

lol

 

[love detective]

just going about their day to day lives, organising in their communities, doing what they can to resist attacks on them from state & capital

 

[J Ed]

just going about their day to day lives, organising in their communities

This is so new and radical and revolutionary, surely these unprecedentedly taboo-smashing events must herald the final crisis of capitalism

 

[love detective]

they did say they have people in their ranks who are ready to take on the big cock boys

 

[J Ed]

A 21st Century Storming of the Bastillee if ever I saw one

 

[love detective]

they are the 99% apparently

 

[frogwoman]

This is so new and radical and revolutionary, surely these unprecedentedly taboo-smashing events must herald the final crisis of capitalism

it probably does to be fair but not in the way they think.

 

[treelover]

This is so new and radical and revolutionary, surely these unprecedentedly taboo-smashing events must herald the final crisis of capitalism

Isn't all this just Tom Wolfe's 60's radical chic revisited ?
albeit on a much smaller scale, I've seen plenty of this stuff done by middle class girls in Brighton, etc..


I remember reading that in the 60's a big house in St Johns' Wood has left wing murals on its side, anyone heard of this..

 

[Blagsta]

just ordinary working class people coming together in their communities to serve their own collective benefit - that's what Penny is embedded in right now

(plus some of them, like soya for example, are ready to take on the big cock boys)

Is that Jacob Rees-Mogg on the right there?

 

[J Ed]

Is that Jacob Rees-Mogg on the right there?

He looks familiar, isn't he the rich 'anarchist' that used to beat his partners and now makes money from talking about how he's a reformed character?

 

[Blagsta]

He looks familiar, isn't he the rich 'anarchist' that used to beat his partners and now makes money from talking about how he's a reformed character?

Fuck knows, he looks like a wanker though.

 

[Bakunin]

This is so new and radical and revolutionary, surely these unprecedentedly taboo-smashing events must herald the final crisis of capitalism

Nah, the final crisis of capitalism might herald the end of all those highly lucrative media and arts career opportunities.

Couldn't have that, now could they..?

 

[love detective]

Is that Jacob Rees-Mogg on the right there?

It's Jesse Sheidlower 'editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary'

 

[butchersapron]

An oxbridge boy. And possibly a big cock boy.

 

[JimW]

Massive bell-end at least seems incontrovertible.

 

[Libertad]

So shiny.