Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
good question (though i'm a bit too pissed to answer it - 8.00 ). Would these people have been in/on the edges of the labour movement in the 70s and 80s? Alternatively, would they have been frothing away on the far right about zionistic communism? I'm not quite sure where they sit now - just in some internet intellectual void that doesn't understand the basic concept of ideology. If they did, they'd be able to distinguish between the operation of social forces and ... bollocks.nosos said:What drives this? Is it a product of modern politics failing to provide forms of political identification & interaction which can motivate people and leave them feeling involved? There’s a massive sense of identification and personal involvement with a uniquely important cause. Is this sublimation of a desire for political participation? If we had some sort of genuinely participatory democracy, or even simply reverted to a situation of genuinely adversarial politics, would the conspiracy theorists stop being drawn into this?
E2a: that post was going quite well till i ran out of steam at the end