THE (IM)POSSIBILITY of Revolution Debate, London (SOAS, near Euston St.), 21.01.2010

[ttop]

Chris Knight, Hillel Ticktin and William Dixon debate:




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THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF REVOLUTION



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Thursday 21 January, 7.15pm, Room B102, Brunei Gallery,
SOAS, University of London, Thornaugh St. WC1 (Russell Sq. tube).



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At the next election millions will vote for pro-capitalist political parties that offer little except cutbacks and austerity. Despite economic crisis, climate chaos and disastrous wars, people see no alternative to capitalism - and revolution seems, at best, an impossible dream.


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Yet all three speakers at this debate believe this situation cannot last indefinitely. Their differing interpretations of anthropology, economics and history each show that a 21st Century global revolution is a real possibility - not just a dream.


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Could they be right? Come and join the debate.


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Chris Knight is an anthropology lecturer, sacked for his involvement in the G20 anti-capitalist protests, and author of Blood Relations, Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.

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Hillel Ticktin is editor of Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory.

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William Dixon is a Mute magazine contributor

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Check the Critique and Radical Anthropology Group websites in 2010 for further meetings in London.


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Please publicise widely, thanks.

[Patchd]

Oh no, please don't tell me this is Chris Knight the 'Anarchist King' with those ridiculous ideas.

[The Feral Underclass]

Chris Knight is a laughing stock. He represents everything wrong with the anarchist movement.

[nuisance]

Chris Knight is a laughing stock. He represents everything wrong with the anarchist movement.
He's a Trot.

[Die Neue Zeit]

He is neither an anarchist nor a Trot. Both he and Hillel Ticktin have participated in discussions hosted by the CPGB, and the former has asked recently why he has been denied membership in that organization:

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/782/whatsortofparty.php


Do not close doors, comrades. Do not shut out all those many comrades who now know we need a revolutionary party.

I have one small proposal at the end of this: why don’t you let me join?

[bricolage]

Well he certainly likes to act like he is king of the anarchists but Chris Knight can go fuck himself. The day after Ian Tomlinson got killed he's sitting on a chair getting someone to hold an umbrella over him going on about 'don't hate the police, be the police' and 'don't hate the government, be the government', yeah right :rolleyes:

That being said I have been told some of his anthropological work is quite good but I've never really bothered to look.

[nuisance]

Well he certainly likes to act like he is king of the anarchists but Chris Knight can go fuck himself. The day after Ian Tomlinson got killed he's sitting on a chair getting someone to hold an umbrella over him going on about 'don't hate the police, be the police' and 'don't hate the government, be the government', yeah right :rolleyes:

That being said I have been told some of his anthropological work is quite good but I've never really bothered to look.
On the G20 Meltdown day, he and some people went to occupy some university department- they knocked on the door and got turned away by the librarian! They soon left the scene :lol:

[The Feral Underclass]

He's a Trot.

Well, then, that is pretty bad for the anarchist movement.

I had him down as an anarchist. I was certain that the interview he did (sliding down a child's slide on BBC1) he admitted he was an anarchist. He was also at the anarchist book fair this year.

It's a relief he's not one of us.

[nuisance]

Well, then, that is pretty bad for the anarchist movement.

I had him down as an anarchist. I was certain that the interview he did (sliding down a child's slide on BBC1) he admitted he was an anarchist. He was also at the anarchist book fair this year.

It's a relief he's not one of us.
Yeah, I also so heard that he's a Labour entryist and one of the founders of the Labour Briefing Journal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Left_Briefing) .

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Well, then, that is pretty bad for the anarchist movement.

I had him down as an anarchist. I was certain that the interview he did (sliding down a child's slide on BBC1) he admitted he was an anarchist. He was also at the anarchist book fair this year.

It's a relief he's not one of us.

One of us? We're all Socialists:rolleyes:

[The Ungovernable Farce]

He's nowhere near coherent enough to be an anarchist or a Trot; he's a self-serving clown and I can't for the life of me work out why people carry on giving him platforms.