>i'm inclined to agree, but then i'm increasingly thinking that anarchism is
>becoming the spontaneous form of working class consciousness, alongside
>nationalism, populism, and a dash of cyber/dot.communism -- all of which
>have their own problems but not equally, and they do accord with the
>character of working class reproduction: informalised, casualised, unwaged,
>conscripted (work-for-the-dole) and the almost total collapse of
>manufacturing and mining (the 'real' work that peter just mentioned).
really? anarchism? how? where? i can look about at a whole heap of nationalism and populism, and i think a degree/kind of communism is unavoidable when you have little money and few if any assets. but anarchism? i'd like to know where you see spontaneous anarchist consciousness as characteristic of the 'working class'?
>just as beazley (head honcho of the Labor Party) announced that the ALP was
>committing itself to a plebiscite on the republic when it's re-elected, in
>the same fucking breath he couldn't help himself, he went on about how the
>ALP would militarise the Aust coastline to stop all those pesky illegal
>migrants coming here -- no doubt part job creation scheme for northern
>towns and part something-for-the-One-Nation types in the next election.
only to be outdone but anderson and costello warning, i love this, that those devious 'illegal immigrants' are putting our healthy federal deficit at risk. why is it channel 10 appear to be the only ones still determined to call them 'boat people'? sometimes i think there's something i just don't get about channel 10.
>the populist anti-parliamentarist spin resonated a lot more than the
>sentimentalised xenophobia. i was kind of surprised, actually, at how much
>resistance there was to being cast as 'the nation' compared to being cast
>as 'the people'. i guess beazley is trying to look around for the formula
>of 'the people's nation' or 'the nation's people'... and i'm not
>optimistic it won't be the latter, given all the ALP's rubbish about
>illegals -- but without any kind of redistributive basis or policy, i guess
>the ALP has little else to fall back on other than racism.
no the people's nation sounds perfect beazleyspeak -- matey populism with such a rotund hint of native intellectualism. i've heard him say the people's referendum and the people's republic and even the people's national identity, so....
catherine