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Benefit envy without benefit - Junge Linke

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Junge Linke discuss the government's mobilisation of benefits envy as part of its assault on living standards.

The government is undertaking a massive impoverishment programme, part of which is to cut housing benefits.

Gentrification - the economy of the land and the role of politics

Wine and Cheese on the politics and economics of land and housing.

1. The Economy of the Land

Who displaces whom and why?

Islamism – Consequence of, heir to and rival of frustrated Arab nationalism

Wine and Cheese on the origins and meaning of Islamism.

1. Islam has a bad press in the free West: followers of Islam still live in the Middle Ages, one hears, and Islamic clerics may conduct procedures their Christian colleagues have only been allowed to dream of for 150 years – to veil women, stone sinners, and burn heretics to death.

“If we have rice, we can have everything”: a critique of Khmer Rouge ideology and practice

Junge Linke on the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in Cambodia, and its origins.

1. The Khmer Rouge have become synonymous with the terror of ‘communism’.

Historical materialism - An anti-revolutionary theory of revolution

Junge Linke criticises the Marxist-Leninist concept of Historical Materialism.

Historical materialism is an essential feature not only of the Marxism of the traditional workers movement but also of Marxist-Leninist ideas.

Wikileaks: The state persecutes its idealists - Junge Linke

Junge Linke discuss Wikileaks.

1. The premise of the WikiLeaks project is that the exposure of governmental and corporate secrets is the critique of those parties. The project and its manifesto – written by Julian Assange before WikiLeaks took off – is concerned with fighting conspiracies, acts carried out in hiding, away from the prying eyes of the public.

Jobs, Growth, Justice: an alternative that isn’t - Junge Linke

With its economy in recession, the British government plans to cut a sizeable chunk of its subject’s means of living. In protest, British unions have united under the slogan of ‘Jobs, Growth, Justice’. What we want to explain in this text is how, if we look at each of those things in turn, the unions might as well have demanded ‘Poverty, Poverty, Poverty.’

Jobs

Education is a duty - Junge Linke

In the wake of the wave of student protests and occupations over the increase in tuition fees, cuts to education funding and abolition of EMA, Junge Linke look at the role of education and the contradictions within the struggles.

The 2010 movement against education cuts in Britain presents itself as composed of at least two tendencies. On the one hand, there are voices which seem to soberly defend their quality of life against an attack by the government, making little attempt to disguise their materialism for something else.1

Private property, exclusion and the state - Junge Linke

Junge Linke on the interdependence of private property, capitalism and the state

Any reasonable analysis of capitalist societies must include a critique of private property in the means of production. Most Marxists would agree. But it takes two to tango. The capitalist mode of production cannot be completely self-sufficient. It’s ridden with prerequisites, and it is the state that introduces and maintains these prerequisites.

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" - Junge Linke

Junge Linke on elections, democracy and the state under capitalism.

… “Oh yes ”, said Ford with a shrug, “of course”. “But”, said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?” “Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard, ” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”1

  • 1. Douglas Adams. So long, and thanks for all the fish. Chapter 36. 1984