Buenaventura
12th July 2007, 13:22
Buenaventura Durruti is a Welsh, Unitarian, eclectically left-of-centre postmodernist radical with nostalgic memories of youthful Trotskyism. He is opinionated and angry; he is grateful to George Bush and Tony Blair for making him realise that he’s an angry older man rather than just another grumpy old man: he just wishes they hadn’t killed so many people in the process.
He has always been a dissenter: happy to raise embarrassing questions, and happy not to be one-of-us. But he could never aspire to run the kind of rigorous, articulate and self-reflexive critique worthy of being described as intellectual.
He lost his faith in the grand narratives of history and religion a long time ago, but strongly believes you can have morality without ethics.
His blog is the durruti column (http://thedurruticolumn.wordpress.com/).
With Bertolt Brecht, he believes: ‘Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.’
He has always been a dissenter: happy to raise embarrassing questions, and happy not to be one-of-us. But he could never aspire to run the kind of rigorous, articulate and self-reflexive critique worthy of being described as intellectual.
He lost his faith in the grand narratives of history and religion a long time ago, but strongly believes you can have morality without ethics.
His blog is the durruti column (http://thedurruticolumn.wordpress.com/).
With Bertolt Brecht, he believes: ‘Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.’