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".
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
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Are you a member of the working class?
10.07.2006 21:17
Actually i bought two books nobody gave them for free-
domino
Are you a working claas member?
10.07.2006 21:24
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10.07.2006 22:09
No, George Orwell was not working class. However, it does not detract from the point he was making in the quote. ie. that the far-left attracts loony-tunes and oddballs whether they are working class or otherwise (but usually middle class).
My problem is not so much with middle class people in the worker's movement, but with middle class ideas which they seem to equate with socialism. eg. most of the middle class, politically correct nonsense spouted by the SWP.
Brutus
Weak
10.07.2006 22:14
Right Tries To Hide Its Own Extremity, Emptiness
not such a class comment
10.07.2006 22:31
marx was middle-class
orwell was middle-class as well i believe
10.07.2006 22:33
another point..
You know who to blame?
10.07.2006 23:24
The Left without counterculture is lifeless and disconnected. People are not classes, hate the system, not the people who are born into it.
Donnacha
Those who do not rule us are us.
10.07.2006 23:43
Anybody not compelled to work in order to survive is not working Class. That Class suffers poverty of imagination but no poverty of material things -anything they can, they do, steal from the Working Class, in taxation and profits for projects of no use to the Common Good.
And as for 1970's lefties - well the rampant strikes of the 1970's left the country with exactly the same "productivity" and "profit margin" as today so obviously they were mere collaborators. Couldn't be that capitalism is shit.
another silly "I cant be working class" poster
fruit juice
11.07.2006 00:01
If you met a fruitjuice drinking, nudist, sandal-wearing, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist wouldn't you try to bed her ? Many real working-class boys would agree after 'sex-maniac'.
The Orwell quote shows one of the problems with listing disparate groups you disapprove of as counter-culture nonsense - "loony-tunes and oddballs". Ideas that seem loony may in fact be sensible and desirable in time regardless of class. It's been a long time since fruitjuice drinking was seen as 'counter-culture' or middle-class. Even doleys get to taste fruit juice occassionally. If you campaigned to replace coke and pepsi machines in schools with free fruit juice then you might even be accused of being a socialist. The real trouble with lots of documentaries about struggles is they deliberately or accidentally pick the most embarrassing people that they can. Maybe it's just the type of people that would be happy appearing in a documentary tend to be embarrassing or unrepresentative. That's the real problem with all political parties too.
Tommy Sheridan has recently been sacrificied to the News of the World by the current 'feminist' SSP leadership for drinking too much fruit juice. This seems silly and prudish in a country ran for two months of the year by a deputy PM who screws employees in his offices and prostitutes himself in a cowboy suit. Georgeous George threatened to launch Respect north of the border unless they backed Sheridan but that was probably bluster. Still, never interrupt an opponents mistakes.
popeye