The death of east London's most radical bookshop
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The death of east London's most radical bookshop
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#2This read like an episode from Portlandia.
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#4This is a great read. Just hilariously unserious people
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#5I enjoyed reading the initial part of their currently most popular story:
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/karl-marxs-labubus/
Karl Marx’s Labubus - The memeification of the communist grandee’s final resting place
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#6Performative radicalism that freaks out wider society instead of slow steady progress has led to the near complete irrelevance of the left in the west, especially the anglosphere. I mean, UK Labor is a centrist pro-capital party now. It's over.
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#7This reminds of this discussion about the closure of a 'cooperative' bookshop in New York:
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#8This read like an episode from Portlandia.
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#9People who enjoyed this may also enjoy the Blocked and Reported podcast's episode about Glasgow's Pink Peacock cafe, "the only queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can café in the world". If I remember it right, it closed among similar drama, also specifically involving issues with the building's toilet.
I have to admit to finding these things hugely entertaining. But for balance I'll point out that Housmans has been open since 1945 and Freedom since 1886. It's not the inevitable fate of radical bookshops to implode like this.
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#10This reminds of this discussion about the closure of a 'cooperative' bookshop in New York: https://x.com/narrenhut/status/1970884747833585690
This is a joke right? No one refers to people as "melanated POC", do they?
I actually got in spat with a coworker once at a previous company for politely and sincerely asking what one of these neologisms meant (latinx in that case).