So, I've decided to start a blog...
I'm going to talk mostly about politics as well as atheism issues to begin with but generally I'll let the remit expand depending on what I feel like writing at any particular time.
Enjoy the Python clip, it matches my politics pretty closely, hence the name.
What to expect:
- Ripping apart of any religious/pseudoscience apologetics or memes that particularly irritate me (including the Einstein fb status which will be duly shredded in the next post).
- Passing on and commenting upon any news or studies that I think are worthwhile or important.
- Allowing you, dear reader, to share in my frustration at the latest idiocies of the Christian Right or of the ranty, shit-stirring right-wing press (a.k.a. The Daily Mail).
- Musings on politics and economics (expect to become very bored of the terms "economic democracy", "worker's self-management" and "socially constructed").
- Links to my writings for other publications - mostly studenty stuff.
- Anything else I see as important or worthwhile to write about.
My Politics:
I consider myself a libertarian socialist, meaning I think that working class ownership of the means of production means just that - workers should have practical, democratic, day-to-day control over their workplaces - this is realistic, local, decentralised socialism: no gulags, no bureaucratic central planning, no grim concrete soviet cities.
It can, and does, work in practice - Mondragon, factories in Argentina and, that great bastion of communism, Waitrose - but more on that later.
IMPORTANT NOTE: my political views are provisional, incomplete and no doubt naive in parts - I haven't yet experienced enough of the world or learnt or read enough to have all my ideas set (and in the spirit of good scepticism I hope I will never feel I do!). I might wake up tomorrow and decide to become an anarchist, or a Marxist or a conservative (god forbid!) but I will leave my past posts as they are as a record of my political evolution.
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