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@suzybie: “I have just come from another heavy day spent reducing the living standards of the Irish people.” Rabbitte’s joke at booklaunch this week
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by Branno's...
Calm down, its not that interesting!
View ArticleComment on Defeatism and contemporary social democracy. Interview with Pat...
What was he launching?
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Beach House by WorldbyStorm
Nice find, I see they’re Franco US. Assuming those videos are made in Baltimore does anyone else think the place looks exactly like it does on the Wire?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by WorldbyStorm
Just too much other stuff yesterday to post it up Pangur Ban, it’s just a short piece directing people to Soviet Goon Boy etc… goes up around 1 o’clock.
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That museum at Checkpoint Charlie is indeed miserable. Did you visit the DDR museum down by the river at the end of Karl Liebknecht Strasse? It’s in the same complex as the aquarium and despite being a...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by Anonist
In case you haven’t seen it, Il Divo is an extraordinary portrayal of the man who above all shaped modern Italian post-democratic politics – the insectoid Andreotti. At some point if I recall rightly...
View ArticleComment on Tropes of the crisis… by maddurdu
‘Who wouldn’t want to go back to the comforting days of partnership and prosperity’ I think that this sentiment is common throughout Irish society in general and is a key element of lack of intensity...
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by Anonist
Thanks for the review – most amusing. I bought the man’s book, but haven’t got around to reading it yet. Once day… (sighs).
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by daramcq
Thanks Tom, that’s exactly what it was trying to do. I spent *forever* trying to figure out an image that would work with the topic.
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by RosencrantzisDead
The points are tongue in cheek, but I do mean what I say above them – it was a very worthwhile conference and well done to the organizers. It was very tiresome to hear people making the same points...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by CMK
Nick Cohen has a profoundly disingenuous column in today’s ‘Observer’ defending the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He compounds his disingenuousness by citing Ian McEwan’s novel ‘Saturday’ to imply, in...
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by WorldbyStorm
I tend to agree strongly re the dangers of a ‘moral argument’. It seems to me that the time when socialism of whatever stripe has been most powerful and attractive is when it has made a clear practical...
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Is the Moore Institute named for the Moore landlord family whose most notable member was George Moore the writer? The Moores by many accounts were ‘benevolent’ landlords, but yet part of the...
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by Tomboktu
One of the problems with this kind of event is that I tend to not figure out what I would like to ask about until I have had some time to digest what was said. And that is what happened on the bus on...
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by RosencrantzisDead
Good question. But is this a weakness in his theory? If it causes people to change or adjust their focus, this may actually demonstrate its worth. I agree that there is a disconnect in resources. There...
View ArticleComment on Erik Olin Wright: LookLeft Forum 2pm March 2nd by Gavin...
It’s the case that cooperatives have the same market forces on them as non-capitalist companies when we look at the boundary to the company. There is also nothing that requires cooperatives develop...
View ArticleComment on If you aren’t already perhaps you should be reading this… by D_D
Where once there was silence: http://www.jimjepps.net/?p=273 And another masked insider: http://sovietgoonboy.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/lord-acton-and-the-guillotine-our-tendency-after-cliff/
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Emma, interesting thought. I’ve been googling to find out WordPress’s approach to unions and can’t find any evidence one way or another. I’ve also googled to find union friendly blogging platforms and...
View ArticleComment on LookLeft: It Can Change Your Mind by brian's a bogger
Is that a sticky in the sticks?
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