This is part 3 of my Blogging with pop-culture references saga. In the time-honoured tradition of trilogies, Godfather III, Matrix Revolutions, Pirates III, Rush Hour III, this one should be shit. So, I'll try my best... (besides, Rush Hour was shit anyway)

Unless you've been living in a cave on Mars for the last week and a half (and if you have, bravo!) then you've probably heard all about this bail-out business. Basically the American taxpayer is going to "bail out" the...

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II

The history of all hitherto society is the history of antagonisms. These antagonisms have taken many shapes. They are historical and contingent articulations of discourse but are no less ‘real’ for it. The frontiers of antagonisms that separate ‘us’ from ‘them’ can be moved, displaced, deconstructed. It is not one class against the other. Class is but one articulation. The nature of the groups that oppose themselves antagonistically, their very identity is resultant of these frontiers....

Marxist Nutter

Preface

What should the left mean today? A well known question, one that has been asked repeatedly, especially since the collapse of the USSR. A question for which, I contend, there is no single answer. Much of the left have retreated into the safe haven of the academy. This has been positive, as left wing ideas have been developed and have become more sophisticated than ever. This has however been to the determent of the left as a political...

Marxist Nutter

Wow. Where to start? Do you want an ID Card? Do I? I don’t know. Maybe if I give the government 27 different pieces of information about myself I can ask them if I want one. I mean, that is the point right? To get to know me better? To know if I’m the type of person who pays his taxes, or owns a dog? Maybe I’m the type of person who swindles his taxes, and kills dogs, for fun at weekends with work colleagues. Does the government have the right to know that about me? Isn’t all of the things you do...

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In attempting to explain the ongoing battle between Gordon Brown and David Cameron, I’m going to employ a Star Wars metaphor. Because, as we all know, Star Wars seems to speak more to the hearts and minds of the average person than politicians do. In 2 years time, in this country, we’ll be electing a new Darth Vader. Now Darth Vader is powerful, agreed. He blows up a whole world just to test out his new gun. That’s pretty hard core.

Problem is, in America right now they are in...

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