{"id":756,"date":"2005-01-16T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=756"},"modified":"2009-03-27T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T05:14:52","slug":"a-radical-new-idea-for-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/01\/16\/a-radical-new-idea-for-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"A radical new idea for a blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nToo good not to quote entirely, this wonderful proposal reported upon<br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotte-street.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/rays-jazz-cafe.html\">Charlotte Street<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\">\n<p>\nA friend of mine suggests a new left blog, using the following formula:\n<\/p>\n<p>\na. There will be occasional analyses of safely canonical texts from the Left tradition.<br \/>\nb. He will, however, carefully eschew any Marxist or even radical left analyses of the contemporary world.<br \/>\nNo mention of class, inequality, exploitation, imperialism; most conspicuously, capitalism will be spared<br \/>\nany thoroughgoing critique.<br \/>\nc. Most of his energies will instead be devoted to chasing a spectral entity called the &#8216;liberal-left&#8217; as it manifests itself, especially, in X newspaper, and in decrying the &#8216;pseudo-left&#8217; as manifest here there and everywhere.<br \/>\nd. He will be comfortable with his citation on the blogrolls of various right-wing groupuscules and<br \/>\nassorted reactionary ranters.<br \/>\ne. He will defiantly maintain that he is the authentic custodian of radical thought.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too good not to quote entirely, this wonderful proposal reported upon by Charlotte Street: A friend of mine suggests a new left blog, using the following formula: a. There will be occasional analyses of safely canonical texts from the Left tradition. b. He will, however, carefully eschew any Marxist or even radical left analyses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,72],"tags":[462],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decent-left","category-funny","tag-charlotte-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}