Dr Sean Gabb: Cultural Revolution, Culture War: The True Battle for
Britain
6.30pm, Tuesday 4th October 2005
Westminster Arms (upstairs room)
9 Storey's Gate
London
SW1P 3AT
Admission is free, but a small donation at the end of the evening or
later is always welcome. The meeting is open to members and
non-members alike.
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The Society for Individual Freedom (http://www.individualist.org.uk)
is
pleased to announce that its next guest speaker will be Dr Sean Gabb.
An Anglican Bishop nearly arrested for stating Church doctrine.
Villagers actually arrested for making fun of gypsies. Museums
stripped of "imperialist" symbols. This is life in the Britain of
today.
"Political correctness gone mad" some will say. Not so, says Sean
Gabb. He explains how Britain in particular, and the English-speaking
world in general, have been conquered from within.
We face a new ruling class made up of the student radicals of the 1960s
and 70s. Now in power, they are creating in their own behaviour all
the corruption and bigotry and hypocrisy that they falsely alleged
against the liberal democratic rulers they have replaced.
This being so, the leading writers of the "New Left" - Antonio
Gramsci, Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault - become highly relevant
for conservatives and libertarians. They are relevant not because
their analysis of liberal democracy was correct, but because it
explains what their disciples are trying to do. Before we can change
the world, we need to understand it.
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Sean Gabb (http://www.seangabb.co.uk)
is a very prolific writer on the
politics and culture of modern England. As Editor of the Candidlist,
he imposed a mild reign of terror on Conservative candidates for
Parliament that greatly amused him, that for the first time showed the
power of the Internet in this country, and that had an entirely
beneficial effect on Conservative policy towards the European Union.
He is Director of Communications for the Libertarian Alliance
(http://www.libertarian.co.uk)
and does much else besides.
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