Sam Han | Eportfolio

I’ve been engaged in a two-day crash course on Red Toryism. Why? I don’t know. But after listening to a couple of podcasts and articles featuring Blond, I’m convinced there is something to his critique of (neo)liberalism and the State. I, however, am worried that it’s, as Zizek’s keen to say, “a right step in the wrong direction,” especially as Blond’s “progressivism” is wrongly invested in Cameron’s “big society” thing. He has some ideas about employee-share ownership, which sounds nice but I’m sure would be completely bungled when enacted, leaving employees holding the bag while the employers cut and run.

(As an aside, his reading of Hayek is very much in line with analyses of Hayek I’ve read by Italian Autonomists like Mario Tronti.)