Tuesday, July 04, 2006
AN ALTERNATIVE TO INDIVIDUALITY
What is it with Australian historians who can’t spell or write or think? Here’s Monash University historian Nick Dyrenfurth at Leftwrites:
I had just returned from a day in Berlin punctuated by the spectacle of watching messrs Marx and Engels (the statue versions of course) descent into a ‘left tourist’ site at the so-called Marx Engels Forum ...
Downtrodden I was then pleasantly suprised to recieve news of this Left Writes endeavour. I really hope this venture is a successfull one - which forms part of the ongoing oppositional critique and perhaps more importantly the mapping out of a new Left politics ...
Maybe I am foolish optimist but I think this political moment holds the promise not of conservative long term hegemony but of the seeds for a counter movement. There is a ‘far away train passing us by’ - a popular yet dormant movement, who, though not inclined to the old slogans and rhetoric of the Left that is past, are desperate for an alternative to the conservative politics of materialism and individuality. As much as some on this site might despise them, there is something in the writings of people such as Mark Latham and more recently that of Clive Hamilton who ...
To hell with this. I should have bolded the entire post. Of course, one of Nick’s research interests is language.
UPDATE. Leftwrites senior beak Jeff Sparrow complains:
It’s one thing to engage in a debate; it’s another thing to spend all day exchanging insults about Nick Dyrenthfurth’s spelling …
Er, it’s Dyrenfurth, Jeff.