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isn't the basis of marx's thought that the forces of production in industrial capitalism are in fact communal and are held back by the individualist, profit-skimming relations of production? just sayin.

er, again, wtf? i did march, and i was already pretty alienated from islamic extremism thanks but no thanks! it is fully entitled to having a devil of a time, before 7/7, before 9/11.

how is saying 'fuck al quaeda' conservative? wtf?

vita brevia jesus, why? there are *lots* of important thinkers out there, y'know. it might be useful to know about derrida as 'context' for other things. only someone with infinite leisure time could plausibly study all of derrida if this was their aim. and then do fans of derrida know all...

really? mercedes-driving, cricket-playing guys by most accounts. question: is 'british-raised South Asian' a good description? NYT says britain hasn't evolved towards hyphenates like 'african-american'. but how useful or indeed accurate is 'african-american'? it too has problems. woah. never...

sorry, nah, i just meant the idea of verso as italian. it's a very posh london company.

nuevo left review is this an in-joke?

it's the junctions that are the real turn-off yeah. i grew up in cambridge, where *everybody* cycles, and i consider myself a pretty careful rider, but i still have to dismount at junctions in lunnun.

Hi Dere Waht Is It Made yes, this is owusay, a joke.

woebot otm, alas. in civilized cities you can get away with headphones, but london is fucked-up and cycle-unfriendly.

what time did this guy go on the radio? did he say 3 stations or more? until about 3pm, many more than 3 stations were thought to be involved, so if he went on air in the morning, he can't have said 'exactly these 3 stations'.

er, how did MIA get involved in this discussion? other than a low-level hipster cache, they have nothing in common. this just seems like a dickish line to me. show me an emotional success!

this isn't strictly accurate! iirc the nazis done it in the run-up to the 1933 elections, and blamed the communists (not exactly a false threat, subjectively). so it wasn't done by its occupants (it was done by *some of* its occupants) and it wasn't done to get the german population behind a...

1) no, i don't have a problem with that; my argument was just that this state only obtained among the devout, and that only a real fundamentalist would take it this far. 2) it clearly *is* irrational insofar as religious belief is irrational, and because the idea of a muslim brotherhood is...

i will admit that if true it's extraordinary and obviously brings up big questions. i don't much belive it, i must say. a lot of police would have had to have been in on it, it wasn't clear, while the attacks were happening, that they were at three stations -- during the bombings and well into...

it has been out in the uk, blissblogger, a few years back. i think some barry collections have it too. i love 'bad timing'. penman wrote about it in (of all places) screen. according to rocksbackpages, it was his interview with roeg (in vital signs) that got him sacked from the nme.

me: what i am saying is precisely that you CAN'T generalise these (ascribed) motives or feelings to muslims in the west at large, ie in leeds. k-punkYou can quite clearly ascribe them to SOME people in Leeds, i.e. Muhammad Sadique Khan, Shezhad Tanweer etc. yeah -- exactly: you can't...

the second point is interesting--i can't quite resolve it in my head. but as to the first, you are totally wrong. here is something YOU said: what i am saying is precisely that you CAN'T generalise these (ascribed) motives or feelings to muslims in the west at large, ie in leeds. only among...

i was being flip re galloway. the taliban, as backers and protectors of AQ were as culpable for 9/11 as the CIA was for the taliban, if you get me. a full-on war was pushing it but some kind of action against terrorist training camps was pretty easily justified. i think the notion that muslims...

where does 'criminality' come from here? which law do you represent? i would have thought the taliban were equally criminal under any such law. i was uneasy about the afghanistan war -- strange, i thought, to launch a conventional way rather than simply strike terrorist camps, etc. btw the idea...