Comment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
Wright recognises such a change himself: “When I began writing about class in the mid-1970s, I viewed Marxist and positivist social science as foundationally distinct and incommensurable warring...
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The NUI-M event looks interesting also but it’s probably worth making the point that the LookLeft Forum is aimed at a very different audience, political and trade union activists, rather than the more...
View ArticleComment on Stormtrooper in Drag?… Don’t be a dummy, it’s Gary Numan. by This...
[...] and no mistake. At least he was in the early 1980s, ploughing a furrow parallel to that of one G. Numan. And yet Foxx had got there first with Ultravox – when they were good, or at least not that...
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …. Number 21 by eamonncork
4 is Fitzsimons, W I think was the first initial. I remember election nights in the eighties being grealy enlivened in our house by the announcement of his name.
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …. Number 21 by eamonncork
And 8 is Frank Kelly, instead of ‘learning to dance for Lanigans Ball,’ the chorus went ‘learning to dance for Fianna Fail.’ Sundry Arms Trial references and quite funny actually.
View ArticleComment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
Two days ago you had never heard of him, today you’re able to sum up almost 40 years of writing and research. Such intellectual force is quite the loss to the ULA that’s for sure.
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I had to read up Wright’s theory of class recently so it’s pretty fresh in my mind. Basically, he replaced Marx’s concept of exploitation as intrinsic to the capitalist mode of production with a...
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From the SWP to the ‘community sector’ to the poverty industry in just a few short years. What’s next, corporate social responsibility consulting, or maybe advising philanthrocapitalists?
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Surely loss Healy, Aherne, Claiming our paychecks, Crowley and Murphy
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It might be, of course, that the process of thinking about and discussing positions is every bit as important as the positions themselves.
View ArticleComment on Bits and pieces… by crocodileshoes
Remember the Leixlip Castle festival riots (around 1980?), when crashers crossed the Liffey and disrupted a bill including, if I recall, XTC? That’s the last time I saw the Rats.
View ArticleComment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
I fundamentally disagree with that – to me that just sounds like moralising along the lines of ‘it’s taking part that matters’, postmodernist paeans to endless diversity of opinions of equal validity,...
View ArticleComment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
No, it’s a fundamental difference between thinking you can (to all intents and purposes) know it all, and realising that all “positions” involve guesses and errors on a large scale – whcih means you...
View ArticleComment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
Though by now you’d think I’d know how to put the reply in the right place. Should be no guesses, no errors…
View ArticleComment on Unusual… by Niall Meehan
Sunday Times, 24 February 2013, The Sunday Times. p16 Letters from Niall Meehan, David Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick’s fake song shames us all The fake republican ballad by Professor David Fitzpatrick has no...
View ArticleComment on Unusual… by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
The other letter on the topic came from John Brickley, Bandon, Co. Cork. He said “While Fitzpatrick’s “ballad” may have been in questionable taste, Mayor Gillian Coughlan’s reaction is laughable. To...
View ArticleComment on Unusual… by EWI
I therefore suggested the demographic impact of violence and threats against West Cork Protestants has been exaggerated, and that many weathered the storm and fairly soon resumed normal communal life...
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