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Precarity is opportunity. Fuck social mobility. Fuck security. Fuck money. Fuck rising above your class rather than with it. Fuck marriage, mortgage, monogamy, and every other small, ugly ambition we were bullied into pursuing.
We are the new young left: precarious, rootless, ruthless, entitled, digitally enabled, and we are beginning to set the agenda….. a new class of dissident — the social group that economic journalist Paul Mason calls “the graduate with no future.” ‘
Paul ‘Occupy’ Mason would be proud to know he is at the forefront, the ‘spearhead’, of a Redvolution.
Redvolution? Typo but I like it. The above of course from Laurie Penny ‘producing dazzling, meaningful prose and finding her audience.’…more like banging a stick in a swill bin to attract the pigs. And surely not ‘a graduate with no future’…working for the Independent, the Guardian and the New Statesman…the Telegraph naming her ‘the 55th most influential left wingher in Britain, reporting that she is “without doubt the loudest and most controversial female voice on the radical left.’
“Penny is re-inventing the language of dissent, delivering verbal taser-barbs to the left and right, and causing apoplexy among the old men in cardigans who run the British blogosphere.” – Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight It must be love!
Hope no one is choking on their Werther’s Originals……Enjoy the new open thread…..
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