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The excellent Harry's Place has a stylish new look (goodbye to the cod cyrillic logo, which says something). Invaluable for its open-eyed critiques of the left, from the left, now it looks great too.
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David Lindsay
May 2nd, 2008 5:26pm"goodbye to the cod cyrillic logo, which says something"
Yes, it says that Harry's Place does not wish to draw attention to its roots in Straight Left, the most unyieldingly pro-Soviet faction of the old Communist Party of Great Britain.
Hence its line on Russia, opposing the government there as an act of support for the only viable alternative, namely the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
"of the left, from the left"
International banking lawyers and Tory-voting hedge fund traders, actually.
What are they doing in Straight Left? Well, they were undergraduates once, but would not have been if the grammar schools had still existed by their day. And who else would ever take an interest in anything like that?
Most neocons were/are Trotskyists, but rather a lot of the London chapter (Harry's Place, Aaronovitch, Cohen...) were/are Stalinists.
Either way, the whole thing is Marxist to the core, and that in a Postmodern pastiche form just as al-Qadea is in relation to Sunni Islam: dialectical materialism, vanguard elitism, democratic centralism, religious "Useful Idiots", entryism, the permanent revolution, and a superstate in which the dictatorship of the victorious class is created for export throughout the world by force of arms.
The only change is that that victorious class is the bourgeoise rather than the proletariat. As I said, they were undergraduates once, but would not have been if the grammar schools had still existed by their day.
BJ
May 5th, 2008 12:58pmDavid Toube's blog "Harrys Place" is more intelligent than this one but still usually wrong. It is not really a leftist blog at all although as David Lindsay points out it has its roots in old style Stalinism.