📻 Sunday listening 📻 - Alexander Gallas on popular support for the Thatcher governments of the 1980s, Thatcherism as a "two-nations hegemonic project" and the debates between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop on how to make sense of Thatcherism: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rew…

A thing that doesn't get said enough is that the simple act of driving several hundred thousand people out of the Labour Party was always going to have severe blowback. All those people have friends, family and social media accounts, and are highly politically motivated (1/2).

Of course that's not the main reason Starmer is so unpopular, but having literally millions of people out there who have a vague sense that someone they know used to be a big Labour person and now they hate him definitely hasn't helped (and the galaxy-brains thought it would).

Nicely tweaked older episode (for sound quality), which looks at debates about Thatcherism and hegemony. Well worth a listen.

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Nolan is a Tory and his films evince some moderately reactionary politics. But more importantly, most are lifeless, bloated and two-dimensional with just enough gimmickry and budget to pass muster with a the lowest common denominator in an age in which film is dying.

If it sounds like Nazi shit, the prudent assumption is that’s how it’s supposed to sound. Even with a certain ambiguity retained for deniability and equivocation, hitting those notes is a strategy and not a slip. patreon.com/posts/143802177

"The modern bourgeois state and its class of political servants increasingly craves the borrowed glamour of fascism, especially in its dealings with those whom ‘the people’ are supposed to hate.. It’s worth asking why and what that means." - Richard Seymour patreon.com/posts/143802177

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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." - Richard Seymour on Labour's asylum policy announcement:

"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - Richard Seymour on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:

Clip from a forthcoming listener questions episode:

It's absolutely astonishing that the bin workers have been on strike in Britain's second biggest city for eight months under a Labour government. The dispute has run on so long that now the strike-breakers who were recruited to try and end it are also themselves going on strike.

On the latest episode of PTO Interregnum, we're talking about the government's asylum crackdown, the threat of AI, the downfall of Wagenknecht, the BBC's crisis, and the problem of burned out activists.