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Quoting Louis Proyect <[log in to unmask]>:
> I would be quite surprised if a group led by sociologist Frank Furedi
> would ever amount to anything in the revolutionary socialist neck of the
> woods based on his musings in the University of Kent sociology
> department newsletter:
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> Tuesday: I am in a quiet state of agitation. The headlines are dominated
> by the outbreak of violence in the Middle East and no matter how hard I
> try, I cannot remember the name of the right-wing Israeli politician,
> whose visit to the Muslim shrine (whose name I can also not recall),
> sparked the whole thing off.
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One need look no further than Louis Proyect's own in-house Marxism list to view
a wide range of idiotic or ill-advised musings (I posted a few there myself,
back in the day), but I continue to maintain that there is much in Spiked that
deserves attention. A great deal of Marx's crtique of Proudhon (*The Poverty
of Philosophy*),for example, is echoed in James Heartfield's writings on Green
Capitalism. And I think that any worker on nodding terms with Marx could find
much in Spiked's "open borders" manifesto to agree with, among other things. I
recall, finally, E H Carr's reminder that "the constant evolution of doctrine
in response to changing conditions is itself a canon of Marxism." Enough
said.
Louis Godena
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