A Rocksteady Beat

They’re scary. They wear masks. They make awesome music. Yes, the Bloody Beetroots are back with a new single, Rocksteady.

Jon Stewart On Romney’s ‘Bain Damage’

Unfortunately, money can buy you the best ‘doctors’ ever.

The Farce Of American Pride

But if I admit that American pride is silly, does that mean I have to stop wearing American flag underwear? Or does it mean that I should just wear even more of it?

Mainstream Marxism

The Article: Marxism Goes Mainstream by Stuart Jeffries in Raw Story.

The Text: Class conflict once seemed so straightforward. Marx and Engels wrote in the second best-selling book of all time, The Communist Manifesto: “What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” (The best-selling book of all time, incidentally, is the Bible – it only feels like it’s 50 Shades of Grey.)

Today, 164 years after Marx and Engels wrote about grave-diggers, the truth is almost the exact opposite. The proletariat, far from burying capitalism, are keeping it on life support. Overworked, underpaid workers ostensibly liberated by the largest socialist revolution in history (China’s) are driven to the brink of suicide to keep those in the west playing with their iPads. Chinese money bankrolls an otherwise bankrupt America.

The irony is scarcely wasted on leading Marxist thinkers. “The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives de-localised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation,” says Jacques Rancière, the French marxist thinker and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. “Happily, it is possible to hope for a world less absurd and more just than today’s.”

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You Make The Best Of It All

With dreamy melodies and streaming guitars, new track, Blood, is something I’d very much like to see repeated.