We have to remind ourselves that ‘left and right wing’ refer to relative positions in a representative assembly, something we would have no truck with.
The overwhelming majority of self-identified left wingers postulate a functional monopoly on coercive force, and would be unable to put their beliefs into practice without strong-arm gangs, lock-ups, professional killers and a spy network.
Number 42
In this issue:
- France’s Thatcher sparks social war
- Thought ( ) spies
- Okinawa: resisting the US occupation
- How to kill a book
- Anarchist values
- Acorninfo
1. France’s Thatcher sparks social war
It has long been obvious that the Thatcher years in the UK were an important moment in social history, which paved the way for the neoliberalism we know today.
Her fervently pro-US government pushed through wave after wave of privatisation and assaults on the public sector, dismantling the structures of the vaguely social-democratic version of industrial capitalism that had remained intact since the Labour election victory of 1945.
The same thing is happening in France at the moment under President Emmanuel Macron, a hardline neoliberal in the Thatcher mould, who hides this by adopting, in a Tony Blair kind of way, a smoothly “progressive” facade.
Like Thatcher and Blair, Macron is “pro”-US in the same way that…
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