As Russia wages its war on Ukraine we are being inundated with round-the-clock news, a cascade of information, discursive jibes and cynical war-mongering. All the while one scampers through the muck to find viable positions and develop an informed opinion of the forthcoming nuclear war that may destroy us all. What has become quite apparent is the lack of a simple principled position that might both explain and transform the conditions of the conflict beyond denouncing the war and calling for humanitarian support. The unreconstructed anti-imperialist position, rooted in a Third Worldist outlook and socialist liberation of which I fervidly ascribed to in my younger years, doesn’t quite cut the mustard, lest you end up supporting a blood-thirsty revanchist regime on one hand, or a European nationalist struggle propping up sovereign whiteness on the other. However, what a global event like this has the capacity to do is accelerate and accentuate various antagonisms that fail to align into any neat singular whole. While this may not be revolutionary time per se, aspects that have been laying latent are suddenly forced out of their stasis. Roman Abramovich’s attempt to sell Chelsea FC and subsequent sanctioning is case in point.
Roman's Ruins, Chelsea Boots
Roman's Ruins, Chelsea Boots
Roman's Ruins, Chelsea Boots
As Russia wages its war on Ukraine we are being inundated with round-the-clock news, a cascade of information, discursive jibes and cynical war-mongering. All the while one scampers through the muck to find viable positions and develop an informed opinion of the forthcoming nuclear war that may destroy us all. What has become quite apparent is the lack of a simple principled position that might both explain and transform the conditions of the conflict beyond denouncing the war and calling for humanitarian support. The unreconstructed anti-imperialist position, rooted in a Third Worldist outlook and socialist liberation of which I fervidly ascribed to in my younger years, doesn’t quite cut the mustard, lest you end up supporting a blood-thirsty revanchist regime on one hand, or a European nationalist struggle propping up sovereign whiteness on the other. However, what a global event like this has the capacity to do is accelerate and accentuate various antagonisms that fail to align into any neat singular whole. While this may not be revolutionary time per se, aspects that have been laying latent are suddenly forced out of their stasis. Roman Abramovich’s attempt to sell Chelsea FC and subsequent sanctioning is case in point.