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I have just had a go at Richard Seymour via twitter. A mild go, but as a disciple of his I did not do it lightly. He posted some stuff about a pessimistic reading of what is happening in the UK. I just do not understand why Richard thinks we need pessimism at this time. What would make him think we are in danger from being hopeful, never mind optimistic? Seriously now there is a shift underway in the UK. I can feel it from here. The conservative campaign has been badly conceived. Recall how Hannah Arendt scripted Eichmann in Jerusalem. She decided she was not going to depict him as Lucifer, but as a boring little fart of a clerk - the banality of evil. She did not want him to be the Romantic hero from the Dark Side. Crosby, who directs the Tory campaign, has miscalculated. He decided to depict Corbyn as the Anti-Christ, Lucifer. Forgetting that that means Corbyn becomes the bearer of negation and negation is hope in these times when we are without a Utopia on the horizon. That is why the working class are singing Corbyn's name at rallies. For the first time in a generation a new element has entered the Lists and that is Hope. And it is providing the most intoxicating of spectacles. The cascade of imitation is in process and it will sweep the Tory Filth out of office. comradely Gary <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
