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I knew Charlie from my swp days; he lives around the corner from me still I would imagine. Actually, to be honest, on the UK left more or less everybody knows everybody else. There’s a lot to agree with here but I still maintain its an issue that most of the commentariat do not know of who they speak. Not a clue. Particularly as most don’t venture beyond London and often have little clue of the hand-to-mouth nature of many other people’s lives. For many, pontificating on politics is a luxury they can’t afford. I couldn’t help but laugh either when he uses formulations that imply ‘historical missions’ etc. but some habits die hard I guess. This Grauniad article is quite interesting in pointing out just how fractured things actually are rather than just relying on the lazy ‘us and them’ optic (and sort of ties in with the Brexit threads and the Corbyn post from Gary yesterday): http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jun/28/why-jeremy-corbyn-is-not-the-labour-partys-real-problem Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Louis Proyect via Marxism _________________________________________________________ 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
