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  • Is Football Reactionary?

    To start with I do think it is unnecessary to single out Football as singularly reactionary compared to other team sports. The motives and ideas at play are the same across rugby, cricket, baseball etc. Football in theory isn’t special as a ‘reactionary’ force it’s just that in reality the level of violence, the gangs…


  • Revolutionary Pessimism, Revolutionary Patience, Revolutionary Optimism

    To ‘Revolutionary Left’ is full of different groups with different vibes and perspectives for the world. These groups read a lot of the same core books, with a sprinkling of their own authors now added to the official canon, think everything is terrible and we need revolution, but end up in entirely different places about…


  • Do we need Philosophy?

    Is nerd shit actually important? As someone who never went to Uni and had no interest in anything I thought of as academic I am really surprised how much I enjoy reading philosophy. It can be dense depending on who you are reading but patience usually wins the day if the philosopher is trying to…