Around the red web
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Lot’s of excellent stuff being written at the moment, so I thought I would offer you a little update on what’s caught my eye in and around the red blogosphere.
Socialism is the real Big Society, A Very Public Sociologist declares, as he addresses David Cameron’s flagship idea with style and eloquence. Seriously though, why is such a great writer still hosted on fucking blogger:).
Talking of great blogs using crappy blogger hosting, Jim of The Daily (maybe) looks back less than fondly on the recently evicted Democracy Village of parliament square, whom he accuses of effectively privatising public space.
Over at Though Coward’s Flinch, Duncan’s magisterial explanation of the internal politics of the BNP is well worth a read.
Time Ireland has the low down on Jemima Kahn’s rather fail-heavy attempts to defend her brother, Zac Goldsmith. And on the subject of pwning arseholes, Angry Mob does a good job of exposing the Daily Mail’s piss poor journalism and its dishonesty about the benefits system. It’s been done before, but Angry Mob does it well.
You might remember last week the latest bout of moronic screeching against the Papal bogeyman. Splintered Sunrise explains that, contrary to reports, that the Vatican did not equate the mock ordination of women priests with child abuse, while taking an amusing pop at the Church’s rather shite PR machine.
Editor of Spike, Brendan O’ Neill has been reporting in Tibet and has penned a fascinating series of articles about the place. Most definitely critical of Chinese authoritarianism, but also of the idealist, orientalist image of Tibetans put about by Free Tibet types.
Finally The Sauce argues persuasively that the right to die is a human right.
I hope you enjoy.
Reader Comments
This ‘big society’ thing by Cameron seems not too unlike the Legalist-Confucian approach to reality. That is, self-reliance and responsibility at ground level as a means by which top-down oppression/pressures can be coped with as opposed to the top constantly being contended with directly.
This way, everyone can have the opportunity to do something about ‘the problem’ whilst being detracted from its source. This, of course, works best where people have been sufficiently depoliticised. However, the means by which one copes with depoliticisation can also serve as the means to depoliticise.
Marx might call it ‘bourgeois socialism’, but as Legalism-Confucianism came first, the credit ought to go to them i suppose;)
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