brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
They'd need a Substitute rock opera, then?
Mad Paul Mason
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Showing more sense in their selection criteria there than they did in RochdaleAnd still Labour won't give him a seat.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Understanding Mason from a Marxist perspective versus understanding Sunak from a Mason perspective
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
I had no idea the ‘Professor’ was still alive.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
He articulates a big strand of the Labour Party.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Was Mason kicked out of Workers Power or did he leave of his own accord?
ska invita
back on the other side
I may have said this already but I read Mason's recent How To Stop Fascism book...I found it interesting...the key point made is that the middle class are the handmaidens of fascism and it is imperative they take the anti-fascist side when faced with the choice...its a book aimed at middle class readers and is aiming its message squarely at them...fair enough
...but having written hundreds of pages on the topic he then daily supports exactly those middle class people who in the case of Palestine are actively supporting fascism, and in other cases backs the fascist anti-democratic anti-protest creep...his outbursts over Galloway are a part of that I think.
Its really hard for me to understand how someone who knows the history of fascism, draws the right conclusions and then tries to preach those lesson then repeatedly does exactly the opposite. Its beyond cognitive dissonance
...but having written hundreds of pages on the topic he then daily supports exactly those middle class people who in the case of Palestine are actively supporting fascism, and in other cases backs the fascist anti-democratic anti-protest creep...his outbursts over Galloway are a part of that I think.
Its really hard for me to understand how someone who knows the history of fascism, draws the right conclusions and then tries to preach those lesson then repeatedly does exactly the opposite. Its beyond cognitive dissonance
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Not sure when he left , whether it was before the split that led to the short lived Permanent Revolution group or during or whether he went to PR and left. I am pretty positive he wasn't kicked out. In the absence of Cockney Rebel belboid might know ?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
How to stop fascism
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
My point was, the great Messianic figure hasn't brought whole swathes of the left with him on his magic carpet ride.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Big strand of the AWL
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Is that his revolutionary name?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Only on Tinder
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I remember South Park having quite a witty bit about the writing of Family Guy and how they come up with their oh-so-wacky random jokes. Having read Mason's "George Galloway is like Golden Dawn" above, I'm convinced there must be a similar process at work, I'm imagining him stood in a room with the walls covered with bits of paper with various semi-obscure political references. "George Galloway must be treated like [throws dart] Golden Dawn, the only thing that can stop him is if the left [throws dart] forms a new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with, um, [more darts] Liz Truss and the New IRA."
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
By a similar process, they came up with his porn name: Big Thinker.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He had left well before that. Couldn't put a date on it but it would have been around when he was getting somewhere journalistically. Was still very friendly with them and supportive, and remained so with the lot that went on to form PR.
Jeremiah18.17
Well-Known Member
Weren’t PR that group of Nostradamus-like prophets who theorised that we had entered some sort of steady state era of stable politics (akin to the SWP’s “downturn” phase) where the most important thing was to concentrate on the steady rise of China - immediately before everything went to shit and we have now had a decade or more of global chaos, rising fascism and revolts?
(I simplify, but not a lot)
(I simplify, but not a lot)
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
There's something wrong with human nature
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
It wouldn't surprise me if Mason had an allotment too. He's the type.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
This makes me sad(der)
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Tough one to answer really.
On one hand allotments are clearly nativist symbols, being popular as they are with ex coal miners who voted Brexit, bike thieves and those who drink in pubs where there are no seats for the ladies.
On the other hand, the thrusting fully automated luxury communist youth he aspires to hang out with quite like them as well.
A question that he'll need all of his social democracy from a marxist standpoint powers of analysis to answer.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin
"She summoned the ghosts of heterodox leftists Karl Polanyi, Joan Robinson and Marie Curie to explain that Britain stands on the brink of a global economic regime change "
If you want to understand this correctly from a Marxist perspective you'll have to de-paywall it
www.spectator.co.uk
"She summoned the ghosts of heterodox leftists Karl Polanyi, Joan Robinson and Marie Curie to explain that Britain stands on the brink of a global economic regime change "
If you want to understand this correctly from a Marxist perspective you'll have to de-paywall it
Five takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s Mais speech
We live in an age of stunts and soundbites so it was refreshing to hear a politician stand up and, for the best part of an hour, explain their political philosophy to an audience savvy enough to shred it. That’s what Labour’s Rachel Reeves did at last night’s Mais lecture. She summoned the...
www.spectator.co.uk
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
and despite all the analingus and silver polishing of transihed old tat, the repeated political handbrake turns, the fabrication of consistency across a bewildering spectrum of political hyperactivity, poor old Paul is absolutely no nearer adoption as a Labour candidate for a seat, winnable or otherwise.
Bless.
Bless.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
ill understand it from a maniac's perspectiveAre you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin
"She summoned the ghosts of heterodox leftists Karl Polanyi, Joan Robinson and Marie Curie to explain that Britain stands on the brink of a global economic regime change "
If you want to understand this correctly from a Marxist perspective you'll have to de-paywall it
Five takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s Mais speech
We live in an age of stunts and soundbites so it was refreshing to hear a politician stand up and, for the best part of an hour, explain their political philosophy to an audience savvy enough to shred it. That’s what Labour’s Rachel Reeves did at last night’s Mais lecture. She summoned the...
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
There was a fairly entertaining clip on Twitter of him coming out from whatever talk she was giving onto the streets of London breathlessly speaking into his camera about three quick 'immediate ' takes. The political world hushed and awaiting his analysis.
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