The turn away from miserablism, cold rationalism., whatever. seeing the value in hippies and joy is the interesting part. the basic point -if were not looking at socialists and thinking that looks like good craic im in then something is wrong and needs to change
Oh bog off. Do you want a comfortable backside in parliament? Get a mercedes with self-heating seats instead, trust me, they are fucking nice, if I could afford one I'd get one just to sit in and blast choons.
What socialists (descendents of aristocrats and the public school tradition/oxbridge) think should be none of our concern. It was Mark's because he ultimately saw the working class as beneath him, always accusing people of being captives of this or that desire whilst pretending to be an objective decoder, ignoring that he wanted to propound an ideology himself, not chew through it.
as for hippies, it's all 50-60 years old for christ's sake. retromania is something, but this is maniacal levels of nostalgia!
I don't think there will be much time for joy when the state sends out operatives to assassinate people, do you? Once again k-punk is unable, completely unable, to think outside 1980s Britain and its cliche culture.
Changing the world first involves criticising not the enemy, who has a clearly defined opposition, but those who are closest to you, those LARPing at being anti-capitalists. And in fact, if one wanted to rescue any emancipatory content from Mark, it would mean backing Keir Starmer to the hilt, not alongside the opportunist socialists who will be imploring everyone to vote for him after having a breakdown because someone forgot to draw up the weekly meeting notes for their open relationships, no, precisely backing him to reduce the labour party vote to 12% so that a real working class movement arises. If people really wanted to be accelerationist, this would be what they advocate. But this would, of course, immediately nullify their careerist grift. I'm literally a communist who builds up a public profile on the BBC and considers Boris Johnson a proletarian. Sort it out.