IN A WORLD WHICH REALLY IS TOPSY-TURVY, THE TRUE IS A MOMENT OF THE FALSE
According to Guy Debord, organiser of the Situationist International (SI) anti-capitalist movement, “in a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false”. What appears as true is false; what is false is true. We, students, see this everywhere, including in our universities and student unions.
CIRCULAR POLITICS
Against Movementism, Against Tailism
People in the socialist movement are often very afraid of criticising themselves or any past projects they associate with, they engage in a circular kind of politics, drawing a strong circumference which they rarely expand, though often-times leaving when caught up in the moment. The reality is that the history of the socialist movement in Ireland can be described largely by one word: failure.
WHAT USE IS THEORY FOR ACTIVISTS?
Theory. The word conjures up, in the space of left-wing discourse, the image of an isolated bunch of intellectuals discussing arcane and abstract concepts. The term is used and abused to mean anything from the dogmatic principles of political pamphlets to tomes of economic and philosophical writing inaccessible to any but the most erudite among us. It is not unreasonable to ask any student of left-wing theory “but what use is it for us in the real world!?”.