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As I spent part of my childhood being bored rigid by Jehovah's Witnesses, and part of my late teens having exactly the same done to me by would-be evangelists from the Militant Tendency, I find it hard to take an interest in the strange after-life of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Still, the blog coverage of Boris's newly appointed cultural advisor, Munira Mirza [left] is pretty diverting. The director of the Social Affairs Unit weighs in: While the Revolutionary Communist Party has ostensibly dissolved itself, its former personnel are still much in evidence and are still operating as a tight-knit group...Munira Mirza herself runs what in less charitable times would have been described as a front organisation - the Manifesto Club. Its strap-line is "history is still young". This might seem just an anodyne bit of snappy copy, but it fits rather well into what is the overall perspective of the Revolutionary Communist Party coterie. Their perspective is that Marx is right, only that previous Marxists have got the timing wrong
Harry's Place has more. Mirza, meanwhile, has given her first press interview to the Standard, taking aim at political correctness in the funding of the arts.
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Kevin
May 14th, 2008 9:29pmIt's funny that David Taube, Sunny Hundal and Michael Mosbacher (the blogging trio who have expressed concern about Munira's appointment) have all forgotten one rather salient fact: the RCP was disbanded while she was still at school.
Ian C
May 15th, 2008 8:59amOur own new breed of Neo-Con's appearing out front, perhaps?
Guy Herbert
May 15th, 2008 9:45amIan C,
Well no, the last thing the people associated with Spiked, The Institute of Ideas and so forth are is NeoCon. Quite the opposite. Rather than using left-wing methods and justifications for aggressive big-government conservatism, they have found a foundation in Marxian academic understandings of the world for an essentially libertarian programme. That's why the New Left, Harry's Place's refromed old left, and those who are closest to NeoCon thinking from elsewhere hate them so much; and why libertarian Tories enjoy their company. The left have them marked as traitors, and need to label people by their origins. Us libertarians don't really care why you think what you think, as long as you aren't going to try to tell us how to live.