Tuesday, August 9, 2011

VERY GOOD ANALYSIS OF THE WHOLE DOWNGRADING THING/ A VERY GOOD RESPONSE TO A SHITTY "JOURNALIST"


I used all caps in the headline just because it was fun and no one reads this blog anyways so what the hell, fyi.


So, these riots are a very hard thing to get a grasp on? Because, on the one hand, I really, viscerally like watching a major city burn! It gets my blood pumping in a way I didn't know it could pump anymore (mid-20's people problems). This is the dominant thing that I am feeling about this whole situation. THEN AGAIN, these don't seem to be even remotely directed attacks?

I'm certainly not going to pretend to know anything about the political climate in the UK, but maybe someone else has heard or read something illuminating on this subject they could steer me towards?
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3 comments:

  1. sheilaownscommunismAugust 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM

    http://leninology.blogspot.com/2011/08/crisis-of-ideology-and-political.html

    and everything on Richard Seymour's blog.

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  2. sheilaownscommunismAugust 14, 2011 at 9:43 AM

    Also:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/video/2011/jul/31/haringey-youth-club-closures-video?INTCMP=SRCH

    http://davidharvey.org/2011/08/feral-capitalism-hits-the-streets/

    http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=1029#more-1029

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots

    http://www.labourlist.org/the-riots-are-a-catastrophe

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  3. WolfgarAugust 14, 2011 at 8:48 PM

    Thanks! Always pleasantly surprised by an actual response to a question.

    It's always hard to get a feel of the truth or the "meaning" of events like this, since everyone is so eager to impose a narrative that suits them. Especially difficult in this case, since it's much less overtly political in nature than the Arab Spring. Probably the most probable thing (to me) I've read is just a general sense of discontentment and disaffection in youth populations colliding and violently exploding when given a little oxygen. This should be very frightening to people like David Cameron and Barack Obama.

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