Spike in Good Spiked Article Shocker!

Written by:Ben Granger.

Our near name-sake Spiked (you�ve probably stumbled on it if you search for us through Google) is an aggravating little publication, without doubt quite deliberately so. It�s writers are the descendants of the oddball Revolutionary Communist Party, an ultra-left splinter of a splinter of a Trotskyist splinter-group which had a damascene conversion to extremist libertarianism.

Its journal Living Marxism belatedly transformed into LM long after it had ceased to support anything even vaguely resembling socialism. After being sued by ITN for claiming the latter had falsified footage of concentration camps in Serbia, LM resurfaced as Spiked, the website for the well-heeled good-looking contrarian libertarian smug-arse about town. With a permanently raised eye-brow. Enviromentalism is wrong, anti-racists are misguided fools, corporate bosses are misunderstood heroes……..Neil Hamilton is much maligned. Ooooooh the controversy!!

In reality there was no conversion. The RCP always had one crucial heroic goal:- piss off and contradict as many potential allies as possible, oppose everything, support nothing, and look exceeding pleased with yourself while doing so. Spiked continues this tradition in exemplary fashion. There�s a general ideological tendency of �telling people to do things is bad�, but in reality the real editorial line is �everyone but we wise few are exceedingly foolish. Ah, one day you will learn my child��..�

And yet! Given the principle of a stopped clock being right twice a day, their blunderbuss approach will inevitably hit home once in a while.

Brendan O�Neil�s article on the revolution in Nepal nails superbly the wretched mixture of equivocation and silence that the democratic revolt against a brutal autocrat monarch has elicited in the West, as opposed to their knicker-wetting excitement about the changing of the guard of one bunch of crooks to another in Ukraine. Be it the liberal media or the great neo-Con crusaders, the silence is deafening. As Brendan puts it:-

�It seems that many in the West are far more comfortable with carefully planned ‘revolutions’ that last a few days and which win the support of the US State Department and the UK Foreign Office, than they are with the fury of masses who have had as much as they can take.�

So, from Spike to Spiked, big up! Won�t happen again anytime soon!

Posted on April 27th, 2006.

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