http://www.leninology.com/
Mhairi McAlpine commenting on Lenins Tomb seems to tick a lot of the boxes discussed here
Mhairi McAlpine commenting on Lenins Tomb seems to tick a lot of the boxes discussed here
I agree that it's out there, but it seems (to me) to be confined (so far) to academia/students/occupy & activists that choose (for example) occupy over more structured class based work.
http://www.leninology.com/
Mhairi McAlpine commenting on Lenins Tomb seems to tick a lot of the boxes discussed here
and her points are broadly accurate, if a bit one-sidedhttp://www.leninology.com/
Mhairi McAlpine commenting on Lenins Tomb seems to tick a lot of the boxes discussed here
Do you mean that the (undefined) left will gradually adopt this language and way of looking at What's Going On by something similar to osmosis? If so, yes I'd probably agree with that if the left (1) aren't alert to it; and (2) don't identify it as a form of identity politics and reject it.I think you are broadly right about the (narrow) demographics who have started to adopt this stuff, but I don't think that there's a wall between them and the rest of the left. And there certainly isn't a wall between them and the people who end up in left groups and activist circles eventually.
Do you mean that the (undefined) left will gradually adopt this language and way of looking at What's Going On by something similar to osmosis? If so, yes I'd probably agree with that if the left (1) aren't alert to it; and (2) don't identify it as a form of identity politics and reject it.
3. There is no future in attempting to collapse anti-racism into anti-austerity struggles. Such attempts represent a strain of workerism, and have emerged from some surprising quarters – including Alexis Tsipras. Racism does not simply emerge as a displaced form of despair over deprivation or insecurity. Its development and spread may be accelerated by profound political crisis, the breakdown of authority, crises of overproduction, financial collapses, and so on. And certainly, the struggles over the capitalist crisis and its resolution has a relationship to the struggle over racism: this means that initiatives such as Left Unity and the People's Assembly should take anti-racism seriously as a semi-autonomous component of their broader strategy. But to understand the relationship between racism, economic crisis and emerging political subjectivities requires an analysis light years ahead of the lingering "capitalist crisis = hard times = racism" model.
How does racism emerge from crises of overproduction, breakdown of authority, financial collapses if it isn't by creating despair over deprivation and insecurity?Racism does not simply emerge as a displaced form of despair over deprivation or insecurity. Its development and spread may be accelerated by profound political crisis, the breakdown of authority, crises of overproduction, financial collapses, and so on.
any more than anyone sensible believescapitalist crisis = hard times = racism
capitalist crisis = hard times = revolution
He's basically just caricaturing the arguments of others, to make out they're economic determinists, so that he can then present his brand of liberal anti-racism as the only sensible approach.
I mean, nobody serious believes
any more than anyone sensible believes
30 or 20 years ago there might have been
Are you thinking stuff like the Asian Youth Movement here sihhi? If so I've been meaning to read up on them for a while - anyone have any recommendations/links?
Are you thinking stuff like the Asian Youth Movement here sihhi? If so I've been meaning to read up on them for a while - anyone have any recommendations/links?
Jack Buckby @JackBuckby 22m
@Nationalist_UK @Edward_Flashman Wouldn't go near that cow [Laurie Penny] if she was the last creature on earth...she's no woman!
Worth a thread in itself perhaps (gentrification). There's been quite a lot of housing redevelopment - but not much change to businesses apart from the immediate vicinity of stations on the Overground. I don't have any particular reason to go there (Hoxton and Haggerston) although Shoreditch/Hoxton is properly gentrified now. Old Street has loads of bars/cafes and a street food market. There's a pincer effect from south and west and east (much redevelopment in Hackney/London Fields). Dalston is more prosperous. No design agencies springing up, those are still mainly Shoreditch/ south Hoxton. You'll get a much better feel for it if you ask the question in the General forum, I think, plus people will describe what's happened south (London Bridge to Tower Bridge) and south west (Brixton and surrounds) of the river.Actually this is off the point entirely, but does anyone know if the gentrification of Hoxton has now traveled North of Hoxton Square, ie into the main historical Hoxton area? Back 13 or so years ago, there was a kind of invisible barrier just past the Square which divided the gentrifying, hipster, part from the working class, in large part immigrant, old core of the area.
He admits it openly.
If you get your privilege checked by a POC it's ok. When we did it, not so cool - just jealousy
God, she weasels exactly like articul8
Especially as this thread could be interpreted as a call out for Laurie to check her class privilege.
Why is class exempt from this kind of stuff by the way? Why can Laurie trample on our oppression but not that of POCs (btw - coloured was offensive when I was a kid, when did it become PC again?)
On a previous occasion she actually bought the EDL leader dinner in an expensive restaurant!
It's not implied that it's an expensive restaurant is it, though? Just that he orders "the most expensive state on the menu". Could be anywhere.