NP the politics of the lonely crowd

[Mike Weaver]

The Spiked site is the latest incarnation of a group who used to go under 
the name of the Revolutionary Communist Party
 From Wikipedia:
It was led by Frank Richards, a pseudonym for University of Kent 
sociologist Frank Furedi. It published the review The Next Step, but later 
dropped that in favour of a glossy magazine Living Marxism (later known as 
LM) which was briefly notorious, until they dissolved their organisation. 
They remain linked as a network around Furedi however known as the 
Institute of Ideas. A still existant German language counterpart of Living 
Marxism is the glossy magazine NOVO, which places itself as independant and 
innovative magazine for the urban technophile.

The RCP and the network around is known for an anti-environmentalist 
position, seeing Green politics as new form of imperialism in the name of 
nature. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK)#Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(1970s-1990s)

They have always been an odd crew and have in recent years sought a market 
position with deliberately contrarian pronouncements, articles and TV 
programmes. Commercial viability seems to be the driving ideology rather 
than any forward looking political perception. Frank F gets his articles 
bought by the Guardian, and TV stations buy their programmes but that is as 
far as their influence reaches.
An earlier Frank Richards was the author of the Billy Bunter books. The 
choice of pseudonym may reflect the seriousness of their stance.

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