acb + politics   62

The Tory values of indie folk and similar bobo culture
Is contemporary indie-folk inherently allied with Tory values?
uk  politics  culture  tories  folk  hipsters  whitepeople  class 
january 2012 by acb
America Isn’t a Corporation - NYTimes.com
Why the "businessmen make the best politicians" canard is false
politics  neoliberalism 
january 2012 by acb
Why I Hate Your Freedom: the Non-Libertarian FAQ
A good refutation of Libertarian/Randroid/free-market fundamentalist talking points.
libertarianism  politics  economics  dogma  debunking 
november 2011 by acb
China Miéville's critique of floating libertarian utopias
"Beyond the single one-trick fact of its watery location, it is tragically non-ambitious, crippled with class anxiety, nostalgic not for mythic glory but for the anonymous sanctimony of an invented 1950s. This is no ruling class vision: it is the plaintive daydream of a petty bourgeoisie, whose sulky solution to perceived social problems is to run away—set sail into a tax-free sunset. "
politics  libertarianism  objectivism  utopia  psychoceramics 
august 2011 by acb
Petition against copyright term extension in EU
The recording racket wants extended copyright terms in Europe, and thanks to Sarkozy, looks set to get them, unless we all act. If you're in the EU, please sign this and pass it on.
copyfight  copyright  activism  petition  europe  eu  politics  rights 
march 2008 by acb

related tags

"visual  9/11  abc  activism  aesthetics  ambiguity  anarchocapitalism  anglocapitalism  antisemitism  apathy  appropriation  art"  article  atheism  atlanticmonthly  australia  authoritarianism  aynrand  bbc  beatup  beliefs  bigotry  bigsociety  blog  bremnerbirdandfortune  buddhism  bush  capitalism  censorship  cheney  cityoflondon  class  collectivisim  communism  conflict  conservatism  conspiracy  contrarian  copyfight  copyright  corruption  culture  culturewar  cupcakes  dalailama  ddr  death  debunking  democracy  design  disinformation  dogma  doomed  doublespeak  eastgermany  economics  election  election2007  environment  espionage  esr  essay  eu  eugenics  europe  evil  family  fascism  fear  feminism  fisk  folk  france  freedom  freespeech  fundamentalism  gay  geopolitics  germany  globalisation  googlemaps  graphicdesign  graphics  grauniad  green  guardian  hate  health  hipsters  history  humour  hypocrisy  ideology  immiseration  individualism  inequality  international  internet  intifada  intolerance  irony  islam  islamism  israel  jeremyclarkson  jihadism  johnhoward  kenlivingstone  kgb  kitsch  labour  language  larrikinism  latvia  law  left  leftwing  leftwingers  liberals  libertarianism  licencefee  logos  london  map  marx  marxism  mashup  media  middleeast  modernism  morality  murdoch  music  nationalism  nationalreview  neoconservatism  neoliberalism  news  objectivism  palestine  palestinians  paranoia  petition  plastic  plutocracy  poland  politics  popculture  poster  progressive  propaganda  protest  pseudoscience  psychoceramics  psychology  pulp  punk  putin  race  religion  religiots  republicans  retro  rights  rightwingers  robertmanne  russia  salafism  satire  science  scifi  sectarianism  security  semiotics  skulduggery  socialism  society  softpower  starwars  stevenpinker  superrich  sweden  teabaggers  technology  terrorism  thatcherism-blairism  theocrats  theology  theworkingpoor  tibet  tonyabbott  topical  tories  tv  twee  typography  uk  umbertoeco  undead  urbanlegend  us  usa  utopia  video  videogame  war  wd2  web  whitepeople  wowserism  wowsers  xenophobia  xmas  zombies 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: