My issue is not so much that they benefit from the system (although obviously they do), if someone has managed to find a way of making a living from writing and selling books then good for them. My issue is that in order to do so, they deploy this totalising high-mindedness with regards to their political positions: that the entire capitalist system is to be despised, opposed, fought and somehow overcome through the sole deployment of their intellectual thought. It's absolutely ridiculous and bears no relation to reality, which leads to my second point: if all this activity (their writing, their activism, their books) has no actual political effects (the complete collapse of the Corbyn project should be enough evidence that the influence of a decade's worth of their thinking on politics in Britain was either negligible or, perhaps, even had a negative effect), then what is the point of it all other than to prop up their own careers?
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