Comments on: Rob Lowe and Me http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/ A new book by GNN's Stephen Marshall Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:19:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: warren leming http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-189 warren leming Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:16:13 +0000 http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-189 Zoe's attack was mindless and effective: its an old American corporate media trick---compare someone Left with a mindless Zombie--media creation and invalidate by odious comparison. Zoe ain't there yet... but she could be with a little help and Ann Coulter's budget--Ann gets her speaking engagements financed by people like Sciafe.--who remain unknown but pay the bills..... tho you won't hear that from the corporate media. Zoe’s attack was mindless and effective: its an old American corporate media trick—compare someone Left with a mindless Zombie–media creation and invalidate by odious comparison. Zoe ain’t there yet… but she could be with a little help and Ann Coulter’s budget–Ann gets her speaking engagements financed by people like Sciafe.–who remain unknown but pay the bills….. tho you won’t hear that from the corporate media.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-53 Stephen Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:40:36 +0000 http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-53 thanks roger... if you feel inclined, do post a review on the book's amazon page. thanks roger… if you feel inclined, do post a review on the book’s amazon page.

]]> By: Roger Cottrell http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-52 Roger Cottrell Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:30:51 +0000 http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-52 Stephen Marshall's book is extremely timely. Despite its journalistic style it actually addresses a central problem of our time - namely the incorporation of former STALINISTS and their ideas into the dominant hegemony of late capitalism. This is more evident in britain, where New Labour has become the main capitalist party and ex-Stalinists in DEMOS, etc., have intellectualised its reconcilliation to capital and its thus interesting that such a book should surface in America, where McCarthyism excluded the Right wing communist party from this process of attacking socialism and the Left has always been more clear on what it's against than what it actually stands for. As the old Trostkyist Left (of which I, like Hitchens, was a part) went into crisis in the 1980s, following the defeat of the Miners and working class, and following Gerry Healy's expulsion from the leadership of the WRP, the smarter people like Cyril Smith, Hillel Ticktin, etc., started to get their heads round this. The problem with the new politics that came together as the anti-ccapitalist movement, after the Soviet Union collapsed, was that it became disconnected from this kind of theoretical approach as it cast itself as a kind of sixties New Left for slow learners. I hope this marks the beginnings of a new maturity in the New New Left away from the crazier conspiracy theories, that will buld a durable counter hegemony to an actuallydecaying world caputalist system. PS. If yiou want to know what happened to the WRP in the 1980s then check out my novel, ENEMY WITHIN, on www.blindsamurai.com. ROGER COTTRELL Stephen Marshall’s book is extremely timely. Despite its journalistic style it actually addresses a central problem of our time - namely the incorporation of former STALINISTS and their ideas into the dominant hegemony of late capitalism. This is more evident in britain, where New Labour has become the main capitalist party and ex-Stalinists in DEMOS, etc., have intellectualised its reconcilliation to capital and its thus interesting that such a book should surface in America, where McCarthyism excluded the Right wing communist party from this process of attacking socialism and the Left has always been more clear on what it’s against than what it actually stands for.

As the old Trostkyist Left (of which I, like Hitchens, was a part) went into crisis in the 1980s, following the defeat of the Miners and working class, and following Gerry Healy’s expulsion from the leadership of the WRP, the smarter people like Cyril Smith, Hillel Ticktin, etc., started to get their heads round this. The problem with the new politics that came together as the anti-ccapitalist movement, after the Soviet Union collapsed, was that it became disconnected from this kind of theoretical approach as it cast itself as a kind of sixties New Left for slow learners.

I hope this marks the beginnings of a new maturity in the New New Left away from the crazier conspiracy theories, that will buld a durable counter hegemony to an actuallydecaying world caputalist system.

PS. If yiou want to know what happened to the WRP in the 1980s then check out my novel, ENEMY WITHIN, on http://www.blindsamurai.com.

ROGER COTTRELL

]]> By: Stephen http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-48 Stephen Wed, 30 May 2007 02:50:20 +0000 http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-48 thank you Athena. thank you Athena.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-47 Anthony Tue, 29 May 2007 23:26:15 +0000 http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-47 Seems sorta like writing a serious political response to Page Six. Seems sorta like writing a serious political response to Page Six.

]]> By: Athena http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-46 Athena Tue, 29 May 2007 19:54:01 +0000 http://www.wolvesbook.com/2007/05/29/rob-lowe-and-me/#comment-46 Stephen, I admit I don't know too much about your politics but just a word of advice - don't get upset by the likes of Zoe Williams. Just look at the comments she provokes underneath her articles - she's not exactly the most respected writer in the whole world. And she thinks Nick Cohen makes some good points - need I say more? I don't think there is a higher compliment that could be paid to you than to be attacked by a politically naive soulless hack like Zoe Williams. Celebrate! Stephen, I admit I don’t know too much about your politics but just a word of advice - don’t get upset by the likes of Zoe Williams. Just look at the comments she provokes underneath her articles - she’s not exactly the most respected writer in the whole world. And she thinks Nick Cohen makes some good points - need I say more? I don’t think there is a higher compliment that could be paid to you than to be attacked by a politically naive soulless hack like Zoe Williams. Celebrate!

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