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Tragic Life Stories: June 2007
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Tuesday, 26 June 2007. This - along with the absolute, miserable hatchet job. The poor bastard received at the hands of an unimaginative MIA writer - is why I have decided to put together a little pack of myth-busting aphorisms. Thus! Who was Louis Althusser? So what's so bad about humanism anyway? Humanism also has a very imprecise usage, which essentially means "nice and fluffy". Thus we find those who turn towards "Marxist Humanism" charac...
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Tragic Life Stories: May 2008
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Friday, 23 May 2008. Why the British Left sucks: appendix. Alliance for Workers Liberty. I dismissed this lot in a paragraph way back when.but I now realise that this was grossly unfair. This is because I have dedicated whole articles to slagging off the snoozeworthy CPB, the well-meaning but poisonously mental CPGB-ML, and all the rest.but not one to the AWL, who are. The worst group on the British Left. What can have gone wrong? Mean it; and al...
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Tragic Life Stories: September 2008
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Friday, 19 September 2008. WTBLS, appendix 2: Talk to Frank. This is an attempt to think through one of the strangest political entities presently in existence, in Britain or anywhere else - I refer to the tightly-knit group of operatives that once were the Revolutionary Communist Party, and now publish a website called Spiked! And run a think-tank called the Institute of Ideas. From the International Socialists (today's lovely Swipes. The RCP/LM...
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Tragic Life Stories: Back to the future of Marxist theory?
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Sunday, 15 March 2009. Back to the future of Marxist theory? That’s from the dust-jacket of. An interesting enough book, which is probably better thought of as an artefact. I may do a full review when I finish it (there’s not a great deal of it to finish, only about 150 pages), but for now it’s just worth dusting it off, like a fragment of Roman pottery on. And wonder exactly what those involved would make of it now. But there was also the sense ...
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Tragic Life Stories: WTBLS, appendix 2: Talk to Frank
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Friday, 19 September 2008. WTBLS, appendix 2: Talk to Frank. This is an attempt to think through one of the strangest political entities presently in existence, in Britain or anywhere else - I refer to the tightly-knit group of operatives that once were the Revolutionary Communist Party, and now publish a website called Spiked! And run a think-tank called the Institute of Ideas. From the International Socialists (today's lovely Swipes. The RCP/LM...
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Tragic Life Stories: Reply to Workers Power
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Wednesday, 21 May 2008. Reply to Workers Power. I am glad that you have decided to set out your differences with the Hopi project in a principled and reasonably clear manner. The document “Hands off the people of Iran: campaign for action or propaganda bloc? All quotations, unless otherwise stated, are from this article). There are differences that are not really differences, in my view. Hopi and StWC are. Of those two, in fact, only Hopi has tha...
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Tragic Life Stories: December 2006
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Monday, 25 December 2006. Why The Left Sucks WORLD TOUR! It Began In Amerikkka:. The Maoist Internationalist Movement. Reading an MIM article, one constantly has to pinch oneself that these are not sexually frustrated 14 year-olds doing this, but fully grown, apparently-intelligent adults - particularly if you happen to be reading one of their legendary video game reviews. They are also all celibate, since sex under patriarchy is (duh! Their terr...
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Tragic Life Stories: What could go wrong?
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Wednesday, 21 May 2008. What could go wrong? I will leave to the. The general story of the ramshackle Reclaim the Campus! Conference organised by Alliance for Workers Liberty. Student front Education Not for Sale. Don't think any putative future Trotsky's going to be penning three volumes on ENS, somehow.). I mean, seriously. Who could disagree with that? Well, busters, first there's the title. Is that even a word? But that's not the same thing&#...
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Tragic Life Stories: Why the British Left sucks: appendix
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Friday, 23 May 2008. Why the British Left sucks: appendix. Alliance for Workers Liberty. I dismissed this lot in a paragraph way back when.but I now realise that this was grossly unfair. This is because I have dedicated whole articles to slagging off the snoozeworthy CPB, the well-meaning but poisonously mental CPGB-ML, and all the rest.but not one to the AWL, who are. The worst group on the British Left. What can have gone wrong? Mean it; and al...
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Tragic Life Stories: January 2008
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Neither Matgamna nor Bambery, but International Socialism! Wednesday, 16 January 2008. Paul B. Smith, line by line. He's at it again.humanist hatchet-man Paul B Smith is once more. Putting his desire for "politeness" in the workers' movement. I Liam O Ruairc follows Althusser in thinking that Marx’s ideas were incoherent and in need of “reconstruction” ( Letters, December 6. Introduction to the Contribution to the Critique. As for those "philosophical" concepts cited above, Smith is simply lying. How...
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