acidhauntclass.com/blog/acid-an-e… New post where I give something of an overview of Acid Comm in relation to my project. More to come
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Martin Goodhead
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Martin Goodhead
@GoodheadMres
Writer. PhD English Literature @Keeleuniversity. Contemporary British working-class literature and spectrality; Sessional Tutor. https://t.co/X5vm2G05E4
Newcastle-under-Lyme, England Katılım Ekim 2017
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New blog post up. Some initial thoughts (expanding on Thesis) on the relation between Egress and Lacan. acidhauntclass.com/blog/portals-i…
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acidhauntclass.com/blog/class-wha…
My first research blog - providing an overview of class and the project. More to come soon!
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Launching my research hub & blog on contemporary class & literature, movements, exits etc @ acidhauntclass.com. Posts on close-readings, egressal-formations and overview of AC to come in Nov'25 +
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@AaronBastani I've read many revealing things in Katy Balls' columns, but never a purposeful insight...
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This is obviously just completely made up, although it is funny.
Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson
This is good. Worst thing that happened for Tories on election night was Liz Truss losing her seat, meaning the new leader couldn't come in and kick her out
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@AaronBastani Even with media's ideological bent, re-packaged& revised (where applicable) program containing 80% of '19 'domestic' manifesto could have been sold (as 'growth') in '24 by real operators: if they weren't pathologically fixated on 'breaking the Left', share would have ≥ 40%
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There’s a tonne which is really impressive about the operation behind Starmer. So much to learn for left re organisation, discipline and strategy.
But the man himself is often incredibly thin skinned. Surprisingly so. It’s a real vulnerability.
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It’s like they didn’t lose 5 seats to pro Gaza independents…has it not clicked?
You got 9.7 million votes - not 13.7 million votes. This stuff just comes across as thoroughly dislikeable. At least try and create good vibes! Or is that not possible??
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
Keir Starmer, asked by Labour MP to put on further pressure to achieve urgent ceasefire in Gaza, says: “This subject will be discussed, negotiated and fought for at the highest levels on the world stage. The alternative is standing on street corners protesting. Ultimately, only one of those will deliver change.”
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@AaronBastani Starmer team=infinitely less impressive than early New Labour re. building consent as part of a broad coalition (assimilating dem-Left with discipline but also diverse cab; establishing rather than trading upon existing media-sympathy) under overall more fortuitous circumstances
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@JamesDAustin @AaronBastani 'Hard left' doesn't exist within British parliamentary politics, and the (often) cynically propounded fiction that it does has exercised deeply deleterious effect upon British political discourse (and by extension upon most disadvantaged within society)...
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I think these (instinctive) reactions really underplay the opportunities, and challenges, for the Greens in future.
Denyer has been criticised today because she is now a figurehead for a national party whose foreign policy commitments are to the left of the Labour Party (1/6)
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@AaronBastani Was Mandelson great when he advised abandoning N Mid/Northern w/class communities because they'd never switch; or when he further toxified Labour brand with open corruption; or advocated for light-touch regulation and staking growth on asset-infl; or when he gave cover to Epstn?
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'Stop the War fanatics' just made me laugh.
Stop the war? You extremist crazy bastards!
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@AaronBastani Two men who've never achieved anything professionally that didn't involve toadying to entrenched interests (whether as courtier-commentator or a 'political operator' carried to power by a) 90s Cons self-delegitimiztn & b) giving Murdoch everything)- still fancy themselves great
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@British_Ideas @AaronBastani Wilson understood the difference between national capital and international capital, for one, when he was talking about using investment & creating partnerships. He also understood profit-motive's capture of institutions if you let it. Starmer cares to understand neither aspect.
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Wilson won four times.
Bizarrely, much of the British media thinks history began in 1979. For them we live in 45 AM (Anno Maggie).
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@trevgoes4th @AaronBastani Also, you might need to read up on a) what constitutes a planned economy- and b) on longer histories of classical liberalism, 19th century conservatism And contemporary neoliberalism. 'State' is always there and 'intervening' - it's just a question of 'for whom' and 'what ends'
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@AaronBastani 45-79 was basically a socialist planned economy that most wish to forget
it doesn't really count
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@trevgoes4th @AaronBastani Got the stats for that? 'Most' is doing a AWFUL lot of heavy lifting. Even majority of red-wall Lab to Con'19, voters when polled/examined in sociol. literature, wanted policy return to 'stable' social democracy with public utilities&secure jobs matched with degree of mobility
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@AaronBastani It could have been Penny Mordaunt, parachuted in post-LT to do analogously (to Rishi) wretched job for 18 months, but in natty dress and inspiring deeply-conflicted affects in millennial left podcasters comparable with those Thatcher circa '80 weirdly inspired in certain Lab MPs
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Anthony Eden. Which is fortunate for him - because he was a disastrous PM. Can’t have it all!
Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson
A bold take and an interesting question: who IS the hottest prime minister in this country’s history?
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@MikeTho04795078 @AaronBastani Why don't you read his book? Might also think to look into how the Chinese state maintains political sovereignty (rather than capital parasitic upon, or co-opting political functions) whilst utilizing select state-market mechanisms And regulated private forms...
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How is wealth created in ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’?
The most optimistic view is the State working symbiotically with the Private Sector - not parasitically.
Man doesn’t want to be equal.
There has to be a reward for Risk, Enterprise and Effort.
Otherwise people won’t bother.
And this is why France’s collapse will accelerate.
An overwhelming burden are now ‘clients’ (dependant) on the State.
France’s Private Sector is no longer capable of providing the Tax to cover the sprawling inefficient State expenditure.
Soon the Tax Take will not even cover the interest on the National Debt.
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If accurate, this is just incredibly funny.
A reminder: if France was sensible enough to have PR for legislative elections there would be an overwhelming majority for a coalition of the left and centre.
Novara Media@novaramedia
French exit polls show far-right National Rally in third place. The initial seat projection from Ipsos indicates a significant shift from opinion polls, placing the left in the lead: Left-Green New Popular Front: 172-192 seats Emmanuel Macron’s allies: 150-170 seats Far-Right National Rally and allies: 132-152 seats
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@AaronBastani Such a deeply odd creature; not like Davey's some kind of Westminster outsider or deviating from economic orthodoxies she clings to religiously; she's attending parties with Libs and Blairite MPs/SAs as well as Tories - whilst latter are busted brand. Why implicitly defend them?
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Watch this. “Congratulations, I suppose” from Laura Kuenssberg to Ed Davey - after the latter led his party to 72 seats, the best result for the Libs/Lib Dems since 1923.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with them gobbling up Tory seats….
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@antonhowes Right now, you have programme essentially trading off rejection of Conservatives as overseeing specific&ambient decline and Labour standing in for the only feasible 'Not-Tory', but with maj. blackmailed into accepting set of commitments that do v. nothing to alleviate concerns..
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Strongly disagree. This is FPTP at its *best*, allowing the electorate to mete out proper punishment and let another team have a proper go of it without having to bend to fringe parties that hardly anybody at all wants.
John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch
I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote. Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else. Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.
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@antonhowes Plurality of electorate (polled on specific issues) support something close to Greens domestic programme -if they could vote for Greens without FPTP calculus & added proviso that GP would have to have to compromise in coalition (nuclear;defence;planning regs) woudn't be 'fringe'
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@oflynnsocial @AaronBastani A power bestowed upon him by a fairly quiescent lobby media, apart from ritual, token opposition from Mail/Tel etc. The same kind of 'political media' that lets statements from pols that wouldn't fly in 1st year Econ - 'nat. economy is like a household budget' - go unchallenged.
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@AaronBastani Starmer's superpower was to do dull so convincingly that Tory-leaners who despise the Tories (that's a lot of them) felt they could afford not to vote for the Tories. I think you will agree that Corbyn did not possess this superpower, underwhelming as it is.
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Labour got fewer actual votes in 2024 than in 2019. That is utterly ludicrous.
Yes, where people vote really matters in our system - but literally nobody expected that. They’d have laughed at you if you said it 24 hours ago.
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