Bankruptcy of the Left?

The author of this work achieves a great deal in a small space. Erudite in content and accomplished in formal design, even avante garde in the novel cut-up use of sentence structure, the overall effect is of a raging desperation at the seemingly impotent left politics exhibited by indymedia UK contributors.

The author dispenses with traditional methods of argument that use concrete examples to provide substance, and instead adopts a tactic of spluttering anger at the very possibility of expression, so deeply felt is its gut wrenching truth.

The author's one clear point is that the privilege of young people from financially comfortable families provides them with the means to spend time in an revolutionary activist culture, one that they also claim secures them a moral superiority over others, while in fact it is all a kind of self promotional facade . These people are, it is argued part of the very systematic problem they claim to oppose, a sham resistance based on middle class guilt, that is at best reformist, and at worst a cynical attempt to defend self interest by the infants of the exploiters against any serious radical challenge to the class system.

This is a stunning piece that deserves greater attention by all those concerned with radical political and social change