Late Capitalism
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Of course the real crime of the Socialist regimes was to offer an alternative to the Capitalist mode of production, but the people living in the regimes of Late Capitalism are assured of how horrific it was generally: the unfreedom extended to the choice available in the marketplace: under Socialism you wouldn’t be able to…
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Everyone knows of the dangers of speaking freely in, say, the Soviet Union, at least during certain periods and on certain matters. Now Macdara is in favour of free speech, especially when it comes to pointing out corruption, or otherwise critiquing the State for failure to deliver against its ideals. He is less concerned with…
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In the course of his regular reflections on Communism while walking, working out, commuting et cetera, the present writer has identified one aspect of what has bothered him for so long about the attitude of those living in Late Capitalism towards the countries of Existing Socialism of the last century. While he is by no…
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The representatives of the Liberal Right expect to be judged on their exquisite feelings, not their murderous acts; they expect to be commended exactly for this gap between what they would like to do (nice things), and what they believe they must do (nasty things). It is mark not only of a lack of imagination,…
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What better evidence of the base nature of the Imperialists than the following response to the Foreign Minister, which begins with a rote expression of support for genocide and then wanders into a bizarrely non-commital humanitarianism. This is from a Labour Party politician—like the man she is responding to, she is Black, but is thoroughly…
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The English government belatedly banned less than one in ten weapon shipments to the zionist forces currently engaged in an active and very public genocide, not to mention a campaign of equally public terrorism against a host of other countries in the region. This seems to the present writer to be an emblematic act of…
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VI We might feel that Palestine represents something of our past; that in Palestine we see the history of vicious European colonisation repeated in the media era. This is not untrue, but Macdara has been unsettled by the idea that in Palestine we see our future: an overwhelmingly asymmetrical relation between elites and the people.…
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III Macdara will never accept that the massive violence of colonisation can be equalled by any violence perpetrated by an anti-colonial movement. In fact this seems to him to be a matter where clarity may be gained from taking a quantitative approach: compare the victims of any single anti-colonial movement with the numbers of dead…
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I Living in the American-led Order, one is encouraged to imagine that there is a hardy group of thoughtful powers, clustered together in NATO, who are opposed by rogue entities abroad such as Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the ragtag gang of proxies and clients that these villains have assembled to goad and…
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This site takes its name from Edmund Spenser’s genocidal tract of 1596, A View of the Present State of Irelande. In his country of origin—the country he returned to when he was forced out of Ireland, the castle he had seized having been burnt down—Spenser is remembered as a poet. In Ireland he may best…