Mary B has been very busy blogging recently. Her latest is about the uniformity and superficiality of the party manifestos for the coming general election in the UK.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/04/and-the-prize-for-the-worst-manifesto-goes-to-.html#more
My comment:
Politics on this blog? Oh deary me...
Anyway, has anyone else noticed that once the Soviet Union's bureaucrats/nomenklatura sold themselves to capitalism the imperialist states have had nothing to worry about in terms of rights and freedoms? They no longer have to pretend to they are the champions of decency, democracy, freedom of thought and expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of movement (eg no arbitrary restrictions on travel), that they are promoters of a society free of informers, denunciations, ideological straightjackets, corrupt leaders living lives of luxury unthinkable for the toiling masses, destructive militaristic priorities, and that they lovingly foster a heritage beauty,culture and truth. So the
imperialist leaders have been gleefully doing everything they once criticized (except the good things like the right to employment, universal access to education and health care, free cultural centres, dirt cheap books and music).
And now the aesthetics of repression and lies are stifling us here too. "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend."
Little poxes on a commons bench, little poxes made of ticky-tacky, little poxes, little poxes, little poxes all the same... And there's blue ones and pink ones and cute little yellow ones, and they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same.
Bozhe moy, kakaya skuka!
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