A Greek acquaintance, long departed, joined the anti-Nazi resistance as a teenager and then fought on the communist side in the Civil War. When it was over, as a gesture of reconciliation, his local police commander offered to destroy his intelligence file. “I told him to keep it,” he said, “that’s my medal.” It was the only official recognition he was ever likely to get.
On the same basis, I demand to be investigated by Lord Walney, the government’s “special envoy” for countering extremism. I take the “extreme” view that the planet is burning; that the cause is 250 years of industrial capitalism; and that the solution is a transition beyond the market, private property and inequality and – while we are at it – racism, misogyny and psychological self-oppression.
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