Civilization and its Malcontents
- July 12, 2017
- by
- Matt
In the conservative-far right lexicon, few words have the same emotive power as ‘civilization’ – a term that usually equates with ‘Western civilization’ or simply ‘the West.’ It’s one of those words that automatically gives depth and gravitas to the hollowest and tinniest of human mouthpieces.
Use it enough and you instantly begin to sound a...
Europe: the return of the beast
- February 01, 2016
- by
- Matt
In every era and in every society, there are those who would like to do to the left what the Chilean army once did to Victor Jara, or what the Freikorps did to Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg. It used to be common in Greece for Golden Dawn militants to taunt leftist anti-fascists by...
Europe Hearts Erdogan
- October 19, 2015
- by
- Matt
It’s little more than a week since the worst terrorist attack in Turkish history – a vicious atrocity in which the government was at best neglectful and at worst actively complicit, in which more than 100 peaceful demonstrators were murdered because they called for an end to the ongoing war between the Turkish government and...
Save a Refugee – Bomb ’em all to Hell
- September 09, 2015
- by
- Matt
In less than a week, the British government has frantically changed its line on Europe’s refugee crisis like a twitchy gambler shuffling cards in the hope that the right one comes up. First David Cameron rejected the notion that accepting more refugees was a ‘solution’ to the crisis, as if anybody had ever said...
Europe’s Border Insurgency
- September 03, 2015
- by
- Matt
David Cameron has never looked shiftier or more downright disreputable than he did yesterday, when he attempted to defend the UK’s iniquitous and morally indefensible response to the most serious refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Faced with calls from Germany to accept a quota of refugees, he offered the following...
Useless Mouths
- August 29, 2015
- by
- Matt
Years before moving towards explicit racial genocide, the Nazis developed the notion of ‘useless mouths’ or ‘life unworthy of life’ to justify its ‘involuntary euthanasia’ program. Theorists argued that certain categories of people were nothing but a burden on society and therefore had no ‘right’ to life. These ideas were a variant of...
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