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1. sandbasher

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 9:03

   Typical Humphreys - words go straight through mouth without being filtered through brain first. What a cock.

2. David Moon

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 12:55

   He’s a terrible presenter.

   Today he did his normal rant about how “kids today just can’t count and GCSEs are easy and do you know they let you use calculators! CALCULATORS! I mean I never used a calculator back when they didn’t exist!”

   This was repeated throughout the segment, only ending when he turned to lambasting the home secretary because she refused to admit, definitely, the ‘obvious fact’ (and at this point the sneer in his voice was palpable) that supermarkets selling 20p a pint alcohol (where is this please?) directly causes murder by the yoof (them of the unthinking brains again).

   As far as I can see his manner of journalsim is to repeatedly assert a claim until his opponent (i.e. the subject being ‘interviewed’) lets out a “yes, well…” as an attempt to explain further a complex matter, at which point he throws his hands up and says “ah ha!! You admit it!” And the debate ends.

   A national treasure. If he claims terrorists are some sort of automated-empty machine people who act simply out of a ‘why not?’ mentality. It must be true.

   *rant ends*

3. Renton

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 13:42

   Yeah, it’s nihilism wot done it, Humph. Very 1977.

   Dave moon, well said that man, Humphrey’s vehement assertion that all these murderous hoodies are being driven by going into Tescos and buying crates of hoffmeister for a couple of quid made him sound like an unhinged old telegraph reader. Sorry, but it’s off to the glue factory.

4. sphinx

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 13:44

   He’s wrong. Communism is the critique of ideology.

5. dirigible

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 14:57

   A critique of ideology may also be, or may become, an ideology.

   Or in the case of actual historical communism it may be raging egomania and its attendant personality cult.

   Much like Humphries and his fans.

6. sphinx

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 15:55

   The critique of religion may become a religion but no one’s calling Hitchens a priest yet are they? Emphasizing that communism is the critique of ideology directly disassociates it from the regimes that have ruled in its name and thus, instrumentalized ideology for the purposes of survival. That said, I wouldn’t deny that personality cults have played an obnoxiously large role in older communist movements (and their modern heirs).

7. Graeme

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 18:51

   Tesco Value lager is about 22 or 23 pence a can, but it’s only 2% abv so I’m not sure it’s even possible to get a buzz off it.

8. classless

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 21:22

   Marxist-Leninists who wrote the books for political education in the GDR considered Communism to be an ideology, yet the only right one.

   As wrong as they were, that’s what most people know of communist ideas. Sad, isn’t it?

9. Will

   Thursday 23 August 2007 at 23:37

   Return to the original.

   http://www.marxists.org.uk/

   http://marxmyths.org/wp/