[lbo-talk] lefty on futbol

[James Heartfield]

"Chomsky doesn't moralize about sports. He points out that the amount of  information and analysis that many people apply to sports could result from their being discouraged and repressed in applying similar skills to politics."

But what if it was politics that was just sublimated sports-enthusiasm?

A Turkish marxist told me once that he had moved to Britain because he had studied the militant tradition of the mineworkers. 'I came because I though the British were supporters [of socialism, he meant] and found out they were ... football supporters'.