[lbo-talk] London Riots anew

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 09:47:21 PDT 2011


James Heartfield

That is why fully ninety per cent of Britons polled think that there is absolutely no excuse for the rioters behaviour. Those respondents are not in the grip of false consciousness. They just don’t think that it is a great thing for a lot of young men to smash up the neighbourhood, without any obvious reason other than having a lark.

^^^^^ CB: So, you leave it as inexplicable. Somehow all these young men suddenly just went on a destructive lark; it was spontaneously generated deadly criminality and profound disrespect for private property. 90% of Britons are really that shallow, including you ? You are reacting like ostriches.



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