I hate the Swedish Academy, I hate the King and I hate pompous burgeoise cultural figures.
Right. So this is an assault on our favourite institution in the world here - the Swedish Academy and their Nobel Prize. They have managed to spend decades upon decades choosing who is the biggest burgeoise ideologue or favourite upper class fine cultural icon this week.
Though it is a nice idea the very essence of it shows just how far right it is, and how much it remains a bastion of the old upper class. Really, the economics prize is a study in burgeoise values, time and time again the same tendencies have been mirrored in choices of the Nobel Price of Literature. Choosing Solzhenitsyn was nothing but political. Sartres own refusal to accept the prize as he was considered is one of the more heroic acts of our French friend.
The other establishment that truly anchors the lofty culture of our beloved ruling class is the king and the monarchy. I can but state my point with the famed postcard of Vertigo publishing: http://vertigo.se/vk/slott.htm.
Furthermore, I believe that even though it won't be the best thing the revolution will bring, the subsequent disappearance of self-absorbed petty burgeoise chronicles in daily news will be among the chief accomplishments of the radical left. Another Staël von Holstein is hardly conceivable for any civilized, rational human being.
The political point with this is the fact that the monarchy, morons in our newspapers and the Swedish Academy are all obstacles, are all bastions of the burgeoise, are all, in a word, ideological. Revolutionary action - the existential search for liberation, and the marxist action, the marxist praxis that this necessarily brings to any serious attempt to reach such freedom (a real freedom, not the Platonic freedom of liberals and other ideologists - be they Jean-Paul Sartre or John Fucking Stuart Mill) necessarily hurls us into conflict - polemic - with these groups and their generating of ideology, and thus of passivity among the working classes.
Though it is a nice idea the very essence of it shows just how far right it is, and how much it remains a bastion of the old upper class. Really, the economics prize is a study in burgeoise values, time and time again the same tendencies have been mirrored in choices of the Nobel Price of Literature. Choosing Solzhenitsyn was nothing but political. Sartres own refusal to accept the prize as he was considered is one of the more heroic acts of our French friend.
The other establishment that truly anchors the lofty culture of our beloved ruling class is the king and the monarchy. I can but state my point with the famed postcard of Vertigo publishing: http://vertigo.se/vk/slott.htm.
Furthermore, I believe that even though it won't be the best thing the revolution will bring, the subsequent disappearance of self-absorbed petty burgeoise chronicles in daily news will be among the chief accomplishments of the radical left. Another Staël von Holstein is hardly conceivable for any civilized, rational human being.
The political point with this is the fact that the monarchy, morons in our newspapers and the Swedish Academy are all obstacles, are all bastions of the burgeoise, are all, in a word, ideological. Revolutionary action - the existential search for liberation, and the marxist action, the marxist praxis that this necessarily brings to any serious attempt to reach such freedom (a real freedom, not the Platonic freedom of liberals and other ideologists - be they Jean-Paul Sartre or John Fucking Stuart Mill) necessarily hurls us into conflict - polemic - with these groups and their generating of ideology, and thus of passivity among the working classes.
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