Ideology Tumbles like a Statue: Notes on the Far Right, Žižek and Lukács

The hordes descending on UK cities to defend statues over the weekend have been laughable, even if their actions are telling.

As tweeted earlier, the argument that the Right have been peddling — that our nation’s old statues, installed by past generations, depicting slavers and the like, should stay up despite the current climate because they educate people — has been spectacularly undermined, as the statues’ defenders turn out to be the stupidest people around.

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