Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

A very good summary

What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical ‘pedigree’?

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory. Therefore,   it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory."          Antonio Gramsci,  Prison Notebooks, Volume 2: 1930-1932

 Football: Debunking the ‘opium of the people’

I hate New Year's Day

I hate New Year's Eve and I hate New Year's Day

"The high Conservative vote, and some signal defeats for Labour in the areas where working class xenophobia is entrenched, indicate this will be a long, cultural war. A war of position, as Gramsci called it, not one of manoeuvre. But in that war, a battle has been won. The Tories decided to use Brexit to smash up what’s left of the welfare state, and to recast Britain as the global Singapore. They lost. They are retreating behind a human shield of Orange bigots from Belfast." "Corbyn has won the first battle in a long war" But he is "A mainstream [Scandinavian] social-democrat"

A book review The H-Word by Perry Anderson

It is probably the best introduction I have read about understanding the modern English society   (written in 1988)