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Paul Mason – Kicking Off the Revolution

By peterPosted on 7th March 2012Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, The HeraldTagged Guy Debord, Newsnight, Occupy, Paul Mason, Revolution

On a bright Saturday morning early last year, a bleary-eyed Paul Mason sat down to pen a blog for Newsnight, the BBC current affairs programme on which he is economics editor. The previous evening he had delivered a lecture on the 1871 Paris Commune to a collective of free thinkers and radical students in a […]

Review: Why It’s All Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason

By peterPosted on 30th January 2012Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, Sunday Business PostTagged Egypt, Jameson, Occupy, Paul Mason, Why It's All Kicking Off Everywhere1 Comment

‘It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism,’ Fredric Jameson, a leading theorist of post-modernism, wrote in 2003. Not anymore it isn’t. If the culmination of Francis Fukuyama’s Whiggish ‘End of History’ was the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 – scuttling liberal democracy’s […]