tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920488656220463337.post8321574711688622083..comments2024-02-07T19:30:21.880+11:00Comments on Left Focus: Reflections on Marxism, totalitarianism, education, Left history and moreVaughann722http://www.blogger.com/profile/11604027151490275320noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920488656220463337.post-51873080398954848472014-02-19T20:10:51.121+11:002014-02-19T20:10:51.121+11:00thanks for the comments: It's good to get some...thanks for the comments: It's good to get some debate in response to the posts. :-)Vaughann722https://www.blogger.com/profile/11604027151490275320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920488656220463337.post-5181242174969992632014-02-19T03:59:38.786+11:002014-02-19T03:59:38.786+11:00*censorship of*censorship ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920488656220463337.post-59016997239718020242014-02-19T03:58:05.731+11:002014-02-19T03:58:05.731+11:00Thankyou so much Tristan, a profound argument has ...Thankyou so much Tristan, a profound argument has been made here! Oh how easily Luxemburg was forgotten...<br />Did anyone see ABC's Big Ideas interview of Jacqueline Rose last year re: her upcoming book 'Women in Dark Times'? It compares the struggle of Rosa Luxemburg to Marilyn Monroe as a dialectical analysis of Capitalism's intrinsic intersectional link to the dominance of patriarchal privilege. <br />I bet that'll strike panic into the heart of these conservatives... <br />Andrew Bolt has the gall to effectively call for censorship or Marxist ideas? The hypocracy knows no bounds. He might as well be a Stalinist on this question.<br />Indeed, the right's reinvigorated paranoia about the growing support for Social Democratic ideas is very telling indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920488656220463337.post-39873817022390311102014-02-18T20:58:59.062+11:002014-02-18T20:58:59.062+11:00Well said Tristan. How interesting that the Conse...Well said Tristan. How interesting that the Conservatives suddenly feel a need at this point in time to strike out at the allegedly "dead theories of Marx". I wonder what has provoked this fear of the spectre of communism? Could it be the unresolved (and unresolvable) contradictions of capitalism that have the conservatives scared that people are going to start loooking for explanations for why the world doesn't work for them? I find it oddly comforting that socialism still provokes such rancor and ire among the liberals and conservatives- it's the best evidence yet that we are still potentially on the long-term winning side of history.Shayn McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271879521616740320noreply@blogger.com