Rejoice, rejoice. posted by Richard Seymour

Looks like Warmongering in an Age of Waiting has decided to pack it in. Perhaps they've been embarrassed into submission by the hammering failure of their last attempt at political humour.

Still, they're determined to cling to the surreal right to the last, hawking a quote from Andre Breton about L'Humanite, the paper of the PCF:

"... childish, declamatory, unnecessarily cretinising, ... clinging to actuality so closely that there is no perspective to be had, shouting into the particular ..."

Could there be a better description for a blog that in its time managed to describe its political opponents as "the pseudo-left" (I think "social-fascists" would have been the cris de coeur if they weren't formerly of some orthodox Trotskyist affiliation), and rewarded rival bloggers with such sobriquets as "pathetic wanker", "fearless proletarian hero" and "semi-literate"?

I'm glad, however, that they acknowledge their miserable failure, even obliquely, noting that "The real world is somewhere else."

No shit.