books are amusing
This is a verbatim quote from my politics textbook, the one recommended by pretty much everyone.
'To argue that anarchism is irrelevant because it has long since ceased to be a mass movement in its own right is perhaps to miss the point. As the world becomes increasingly complex and fragmented, it might be that it is mass politics itself that is dead. From this perspective, anarchism, by virtue of its association with values such as individualism, participation, decentralization[sic] and equality, may be better equipped than many other political creeds to respond to the challenges of postmodernism.'
Ah, good old Andrew Heywood. Hailed as too lefty by the right, and too right by the lefties. He's basically trying to radicalise a generation, don'tcha know. Or something.
Anyway, I had a crack at reading Martin Chuzzlewit this lunchtime, probably because I wanted to contract that atrocious brain disease known as 'too many words make face go ow'. This, erm, confusing snippet was embedded neatly in the first page.
'There can be no doubt that at least one Chuzzlewit came over with William the Conqueror. It does not appear that this illustrious ancestor 'came over' that monarch, to employ the vulgar phrase, at any subsequent period: inasmuch as the Family do not seem to have ever been greatly distinguished by the possession of landed estate.'
...Dickens I have literally no idea what you are implying, but I want in on it.
'To argue that anarchism is irrelevant because it has long since ceased to be a mass movement in its own right is perhaps to miss the point. As the world becomes increasingly complex and fragmented, it might be that it is mass politics itself that is dead. From this perspective, anarchism, by virtue of its association with values such as individualism, participation, decentralization[sic] and equality, may be better equipped than many other political creeds to respond to the challenges of postmodernism.'
Ah, good old Andrew Heywood. Hailed as too lefty by the right, and too right by the lefties. He's basically trying to radicalise a generation, don'tcha know. Or something.
Anyway, I had a crack at reading Martin Chuzzlewit this lunchtime, probably because I wanted to contract that atrocious brain disease known as 'too many words make face go ow'. This, erm, confusing snippet was embedded neatly in the first page.
'There can be no doubt that at least one Chuzzlewit came over with William the Conqueror. It does not appear that this illustrious ancestor 'came over' that monarch, to employ the vulgar phrase, at any subsequent period: inasmuch as the Family do not seem to have ever been greatly distinguished by the possession of landed estate.'
...Dickens I have literally no idea what you are implying, but I want in on it.