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If you assume one of the main directives of British police is to frustrate radical political change and forestall revolution, none of their actions are surprisi

• claudiawerner 8y ago
  I don't see it as being that grand, at least not at the moment. I think we are very far from something like May '68 or Soviet revolution. A lot of theory has been dedicated to figuring out why we are in this situation in which there is a completely inactive working class with very little drive behind them; various explanations have been given, though - Marx's critique of ideology, Althusser's explanations of ISAs and RSAs, Debord's of society of the spectacle, the Frankfurt School's concentration on mass culture changing what we define as being rational (and the closing off of the "extremes", for it is no longer "reasonable" to operate outside of the "democratic" system etc.) all the way to newer ideas; I'm reading "Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire at the moment, which carries the following rather provocative tagline: "Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is more difficult to answer than one might at first imagine, and it lies at the heart of Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital."
  • ionised 8y ago
    The Snowden leaks highlighted how the intelligence and law enforcement services in the UK surveilled the likes of the Open Rights Group, Oxfam etc. If you were part of these organisations you were labelled a 'domestic extremist'. It is already happening. Has been for a long time.