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1/ Liz Truss speech signals Tories planning a sustained onslaught on anti-racism, feminism, LGBTQ+ ... but I'm not going to resist it by defending Foucault. Postmodernism was a dead end for the left, as I said in #ClearBrightFuture... 
2/ Truss claims modern anti-racism/feminism and therefore socialism has "no space for evidence" as truth and morality are relative... she's wrong because we didn't need pomo to be anti-racists... here's Lewisham 1977...
3/ I entered left politics in 1976 and I can tell you that the dominant rationale for feminism, black liberation politics and gay liberation had nothing to do with pomo... it was the Marxism of CLR James, Fanon, Rowbotham, Thompson, Berger...
The Great Reset is a half-assed but well intentioned idea by the WEF to design a sustainable version of neoliberalism-lite. But the Covid conspiraloons think it's an actual "global elite plan to take over the world" because the graphic looks like a Freemasonic eye 1/
2/ Here's the Mises Institute and a Vatican conspiraloon spreading the same basic idea... it maps perfectly onto QAnon and plays on the ultimate fear of the disoriented neoliberal self: that society exists after all...
3/ It's totally consistent with Arendt's observation that, before they take power the authoritarian right have to conjure up "a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself" newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/…
I've left the Whitehall DFLA protest now. There are groups of 30-50 fanning out across London. This was definitely NOT a breakthru for British fascism, despite dog whistle encouragement from right wing tabloids: same blokes, same drunken victim narrative... 1/
2/ I saw 2x Paratroop Regiment berets, 2x Royal Marines berets, 1x RIR all presumably worn by veterans. Meanwhile this guy has the "joke" Nazi Wehrmacht battle flag of "Kekistan" (see #ClearBrightFuture for explanation)...
3/ Almost all violence and animosity aimed at Met Police ...
Cummings retro-edit of his blog perfectly timed to coincide with @SenTomCotton mainstreaming the "Wuhan Lab Theory" - the global right want to use this pandemic for a Cold War on China... 1/ My column: newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
2/ The Wuhan Lab story was pushed into the mainstream by a "member of Cobra" and a UK government minister (in the Mail) 10 days before US intel agencies started briefing their own media... newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
3/ You want to know where this story ends? Listen to Steve Bannon on in this @thewirechina interview thewirechina.com/2020/05/24/ste…
"As we move towards a future defined by artificial intelligence, we must make a choice: will we accept machine control of human beings, or resist it?" Watch live as @paulmasonnews discusses ideas from #ClearBrightFuture at #RSAFuture at 1pm next Thursday thersa.org/events/2019/05…
"How to Future-Proof Humanity": This is being broadcast live from 1pm UK time today, #ClearBrightFuture at #RSAFuture, on
"We live in an age of technological euphoria and geopolitical doom. And both of these emotions are justified" - @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture
The intellectuals' manifesto to defend Europe (Pamhuk, Applebaum etc) is not bad. It avoids playing the "radical left and the far right are the same" game, attacking nationalists and identitarians. Here's what I wrote the same day; independent.co.uk/voices/europea…
The point is how do you defend, actively, a European project that has become completely identified with and staffed by an elite dedicated to impoverishing Europeans? Answer: acts of contrition, massive reform and joint activity with the left... independent.co.uk/voices/europea…
In the 1930s the Comintern, social democrats and the liberal republicans of Spain and France managed to engineer defensive democratic governments against the far right; in Britain the May 1940 crisis achieved this without the CP...
