tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post8542645303452996409..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Arrested materialismbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-79263494644731208212011-02-04T11:31:52.476+00:002011-02-04T11:31:52.476+00:00SWP's position on terrorism:
http://web.archiv...SWP's position on terrorism:<br />http://web.archive.org/web/20061027215212/leninology.blogspot.com/2005/07/suicide-bombing-dossier.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-12956216973015086612011-01-29T13:52:48.710+00:002011-01-29T13:52:48.710+00:00Ben - Just looked at the low-cut vests link. It...Ben - Just looked at the low-cut vests link. It's fantastic! More later on spirituality and progressivesBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-27989921925926378152011-01-26T15:57:32.753+00:002011-01-26T15:57:32.753+00:00If they bothered to look at the facts, they would ...<i>If they bothered to look at the facts, they would notice that Islamism is not primarily a movement of the poor, but rather of elites in Islamic countries.</i><br /><br />Anger at social conditions has been enough to inspire revolutionaries (Trotsky), guerrilla warriors (Che) and terrorists (Baader and Meinhof), all of whom were as middle-class as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU" rel="nofollow">low-cut vests</a>. Sure, that doesn't mean they were or are the only motivations (and I'd bet that ideology and simple <a href="http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/gray_12_10.html" rel="nofollow">group dynamics</a> are more influential for the sods that are your subjects) but, still, I'm not sure it's a powerful criticism.BenSixhttp://bensix.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-14324835498953967322011-01-26T13:40:02.233+00:002011-01-26T13:40:02.233+00:00The absolutely MOST fundamentally wrong (and incur...The absolutely MOST fundamentally wrong (and incurably wrong, may I add) aspect of the Leftist critique of Jihad is that it is A-SPIRITUAL. The Left simply cannot understand that there's a spiritual logic to Jihad. So no matter how you spin or enhance the materialist critique (even as wisely as you do), something is missing -- i.e., the <em>certain knowledge</em> that Jihad is spiritual in nature. If you can't "go there," you can't "get it."<br /><br />Yes, the materialist Left is wrong. But it is forever wrong because it cannot grasp the spiritual reality and logic of Jihad.Jogonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-64764185144342244002011-01-25T20:47:04.031+00:002011-01-25T20:47:04.031+00:00Brilliant post. Will read this again as it sums up...Brilliant post. Will read this again as it sums up the state of many "progressives" very well.<br /><br />Interesting also this new psuedo-materialism and how it may (in my opinion) relate to much of the modern left's dislocation from its own domestic working-class - look at the middle-class nature of the SWP's politics for example.<br /><br />Funny, as I'm writing this the "word verification" it is asking me for is "kitch". Of course, kitsch would be better - the kitsch-left!James Bloodworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056322603243514660noreply@blogger.com