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This critique worth reading. My next book is a massive defence of teleological humanism vs postmodernism! newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
While @JonCruddas_1 right to say I see networked individual as agent of history I don’t follow Negri or any other anti/post/trans-humanist..
... the only Marxism relevant to the era of tech Utopianism is 1844 - the Hegelian humanism rediscovered by Dunayevskaya etc...
..My next book centres on this and is gonna force the entire left to decide whether it wants to defend humanity against machine logic or not
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A Christmas message to the Conservative Party - enough with hard-right Jacobinism... get practical about a very soft Brexit or none ... (longer version on my @YouTube channel...)
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Here's the @NewStatesman article where I argue the Tories have become as Jacobin and crazed as the people Edmund Burke railed against in 1790!
newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
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Headlines full of liberal centrist demands on Corbyn to launch no confidence vote and call for 2nd referendum... if only liberal elite not spent two years trying to destroy him... Thread: 1/
2/ ... when the business elite simultaneously declare themselves "terrified" of a Corbyn Govt yet urge him to bring down Tories, what's really going on? A struggle for agency...
3/ There's no clear party representing the globalist ruling class in U.K. - Tories broken, Labour in hands of working class base, Libs irrelevant, SNP checked out of the motel...
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Okay so I've been modelling the "indicative votes" route in Parliament supported by Rudd, Lidington etc... 1/ To model "every conceivable" option you have to model Labour's; let's call it Norway-minus...
2/ Suppose you ask MPs to pick ONLY their most favoured option. My guess is 60 Tories go for No Deal; 140 for Canada FTA; the rest split 55:60 for Norway Plus and PV...
3/ 10x DUP support Canada; 39 SNP/PC support Norway Plus; 1x Green supports PV; Libdems support PV
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I think a plausible explanation is that whatever Corbyn says or does, his critics will denounce - no matter how much hypocrisy it necessitates.

Corbyn opposes the exploitation of foreign sweatshop-workers - Labour MPs complain he's like Nigel Farage:

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
He speaks up in defence of migrants - Labour MPs whinge that he's not listening to the public's very real concerns about immigration:

theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/s…
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Of the various journalists who back the Corbyn project, @paulmasonnews is much the most interesting and substantial. But I was struck by two passages in his recent @NewStatesman piece, which speak to some of the concerns many of us feel about Labour's new direction. 1/12
First up: this is what Mason had to say about “Wreathgate”, which “Corbyn and his team have handled .. with aplomb”. 2/12
We can debate the rights & wrongs of "Wreathgate", but since when did a progressive party measure morality by its "cut-through" in the polls? It's hardly news that picking fights with minorities can be popular – so let's take Boris Johnson as an example. 3/12
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WANTED: A serious progressive approach to foreign policy. Dictator-lovers need not apply.
ALSO WANTED: Intellectuals who oppose bad faith arguments and don't resort to strawmen and deflections when they can't come up with remotely coherent arguments for their know-nothing FP positions.

Noah Berlatsky need not apply.
"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down." -- Malcolm X
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Thread: I've been thinking of recent discourse that pits cosmopolitan citizens from nowhere against real, authentic, deserving people.
This discourse is mainstream in left and right since Brexit vote.
What is less known is that it has its origin in anti-Semitic tropes 1/
A recent example is Gordon Brown who argued that the UK needs to take a tougher stance on migration, because that would address "concerns about stagnant wages, left-behind communities, migration pressures, sovereignty and the state of the NHS" 2/ theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
paradigm case is May's Conservative Party Conference speech in 2016 where she said "… today, too many people in positions of power behave as though they have more in common with international elites than with the people down the road,... the people they pass in the street. 3/
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In the immortal words of @austin_walker: you ever see a take so bad that you're forced to immediately go to sleep? newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
I get that "anti-identity-politics" hitpieces are the hot new thing this season, but Jon Cruddas MP pulls some avant-garde abstract expressionist bullshit with this piece that is monumentally staggering to anyone familiar with his academic sources or the Left.
To wit, Cruddas identifies the transhumanist movement with the left and calls it profoundly influential on socialism, saying it helped "define today’s left." Which... lol? I mean, what do you even say about category errors of this magnitude?
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