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Swears: "But I think class as an idea is about more than just money. You can be rich trash or a broke aristocrat. It's a mindset as much as a bank balance." Yeah - lenin was no factory worker and even Marx was pretty bourgeois in his background. This doens't mean that the way out of poverty...

Perhaps because he's not committing class treason so he can get that management job he always never wanted? the problem with education is that it operates according to a value which totally ignores the difference in the aspirations of different sections of soceity. If you're the child of an...

My beef with the whole thing isn't really a moral one at all - its tactical. I agree with Shereif that pacifism when faced with armed attack is useless, and I'll join him in giving Kant a good kicking, but bruno's right to wonder about "palestinian" tactics here. I think it helps if you...

Interesting. I suppose this is how the representation of terrorism functions - turns the Western capitalist aggressor into a victim of the desperate, doomed-to-failure non-strategy of the isolated opressed. Swears wrote: "And how much power does Hamas really have? Are they "running" Palastine...

I suppose its important to keep 'Palestinians' and 'the kidnappers' separate in our heads, even if there seems to be support for these kind of actions. What most palestinians would like to achieve is a way out of poverty and violence, i expect (a lot like what the poorer israelis would like...

"Talking about the manifesto more generally, it seems to me that the aim of bringing down technological society so that mankinds goals are real rather than surrogate goals is a surrogate goal in itself." Agreed. If he'd said something about technological society replacing its own aims for the...

I'm a leftist. This guy is a pseudo-Marxist. He's borrowed this: "This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society." from Marx but hasn't got his brain around the analysis which led to...

Bruno - How about the English Revolution of the late 1600s? I'm not saying nobody died (they did), but unlike the dynastic wars which preceded it (accompanying 'gradual change') it put a new, dynamic class in charge that improved life for millions of people. This seems the crucial thing to me...