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BBC2 DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 'LEFTIES'.

Brutus | 10.07.2006 20:32 | Analysis | Culture | Workers' Movements

A 3 part documentary began on BBC2 at 7 pm tonight with the second and third ones on Monday 17 and 24 th July.

Typically of the middle class freaks who create these documentaries about the Left, there were no members of the working class in sight!

The far-left or to use the freak's own term, the "lefties" from the 1960's and 70's were middle class hippy-cultists, radical feminists, environmentalists and squatters.

Funny that, I always thought that left-wing politics was about the working class, not about counter-culture freaks.

Documentaries such as this remind me why the far-left in Britain is so hated, and could not hope to get even a borough councillor elected unless they cringe to the Muslims for support.

People like Tariq Ali and the leaders of the SWP decided decades ago that they would abandon the working class because "feminists, ethnic minorities and students are the new revolutionatry vanguard". What a fucking joke!

To quote George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier (1937):

"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words "socialism" and "communism" draw towards them with magnetic force every fruitjuice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England".

Brutus

Comments

Display the following 9 comments

  1. Are you a member of the working class? — domino
  2. Are you a working claas member? — domino
  3. Reply to above — Brutus
  4. Weak — Right Tries To Hide Its Own Extremity, Emptiness
  5. not such a class comment — marx was middle-class
  6. orwell was middle-class as well i believe — another point..
  7. You know who to blame? — Donnacha
  8. Those who do not rule us are us. — another silly "I cant be working class" poster
  9. fruit juice — popeye