tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post3312159409889293805..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Hyssopo et MundaborDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-25832664476100339862016-09-02T21:11:00.731+01:002016-09-02T21:11:00.731+01:00Altiero Spinelli? Bloody hell, this is an erudite ...Altiero Spinelli? Bloody hell, this is an erudite blog! But Booker, in comic character as a Colonel Blimp, is pretending to see Reds under the bed with this one. And Hitchens, an old Trot, possibly thinks they are really there. The Ventotene Manifesto? You must be one of very few people who've ever read that. I bet neither of them ever has. A fascinating historical curiosity that never had any impact on anything. Like Christopher Booker or Peter Hitchens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-45871623581232191672016-09-02T01:42:12.664+01:002016-09-02T01:42:12.664+01:00Hitchens says of the leading Leave campaigners: &q...Hitchens says of the leading Leave campaigners: "Al ‘Boris’ Johnson is now a member of Chairman May’s politburo, her creature, existing at her whim and committed to make any failure look like a success. Michael Gove is, I am told, growing a beard. Gisela Stuart has vanished into the jungle of Labour’s civil war. Andrea Leadsom has been swallowed up. As for David Davis, the only real shark in Chairman May’s lagoon, he is mainly occupied fending off his rivals, Liam Fox and Al Johnson." But he declines to mention that Kelvin Hopkins, who <i>chaired</i> Labour Leave, has since been appointed to the Shadow Cabinet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-26902225645544357662016-09-02T01:24:34.258+01:002016-09-02T01:24:34.258+01:00Spinelli left the Communist Party in 1937, when he...Spinelli left the Communist Party in 1937, when he was 30. He did not die until he was 78. He had been out of the party for four years by the time of the Ventotene Manifesto, which in any case does not awfully much resemble the EU.<br /><br />Hitchens's claim that Western European Communists became European federalists after the Soviet Union collapsed is wrong, not only in that they didn't, but in Spinelli's case in that he died in 1986, while the Soviet Union still existed.<br /><br />Western Marxism and Eurocommunism, neither of them keen on the EU (to put it mildly), were not responses to the collapse of the USSR. The first, in particular, was barely younger than it was. Gramsci, after all, died as long ago as 1937, the year that Spinelli left the Communist Party, never to return.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-36775112999748955032016-09-02T01:11:31.325+01:002016-09-02T01:11:31.325+01:00Booker is a satirical journalist, basically a come...Booker is a satirical journalist, basically a comedian. You are right of course, the idea of Communists for the EU is too ridiculous for words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-41869584039833084772016-09-01T22:57:53.511+01:002016-09-01T22:57:53.511+01:00No one is more hostile to the EU than Communists a...No one is more hostile to the EU than Communists are. Some people are equally so. But no one is more so, and practically no one on the Right has been so for as long. If Hitchens and Booker really believe any of this, then they are simply out of their depth.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-37145339899021345052016-09-01T22:56:02.063+01:002016-09-01T22:56:02.063+01:00Euurrgghh!Euurrgghh!David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-74057429874314066052016-09-01T18:38:13.146+01:002016-09-01T18:38:13.146+01:00Do you hate Fleming because you had an affair with...Do you hate Fleming because you had an affair with him? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-54006992205955990112016-08-31T23:05:43.607+01:002016-08-31T23:05:43.607+01:00Peter Hitchens, simply the best columnist in Brita...Peter Hitchens, simply the best columnist in Britain (although Christopher Booker is close) and one of the only reporters to notice why the EU chose Ventotene for their summit on Brexit.<br /><br />Hitchens today:""I already knew this, as I am interested in what happened to Western Europe’s Communists after they gave up on the Soviet Union, but how many of you grasped the significance of the location of the Mediterranean EU summit, the bleak island of Ventotene, used by Mussolini as a prison for his opponents?<br /><br />It was a homage to the Italian Communist Altiero Spinelli, one of the original designers of the EU utopia. <br /><br />Yet his original politics are either not known to, or never mentioned by, most mainstream, reporters. Why would that be? <br /><br />My friend Christopher Booker, of course, knew and noticed. See here;<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/27/the-secret-history-of-the-eu-written-on-an-italian-prison-island/""Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-4485502846059926372016-08-31T00:04:56.836+01:002016-08-31T00:04:56.836+01:00You could have been friends if he'd known his ...You could have been friends if he'd known his place. You were when it seemed like he did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-3803963586270689852016-08-30T23:52:24.829+01:002016-08-30T23:52:24.829+01:00As long as he stays out of active politics.As long as he stays out of active politics.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-71006468723902606942016-08-30T23:49:42.114+01:002016-08-30T23:49:42.114+01:00Maybe it's time for you to lay off Neil Flemin...Maybe it's time for you to lay off Neil Fleming, you have completely destroyed him as a political force even at parish level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com