Difference between revisions of "LM network"
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* [[Big Potatoes]] - Innovation | * [[Big Potatoes]] - Innovation | ||
* [[Climate Resistance]] - Climate change sceptism | * [[Climate Resistance]] - Climate change sceptism | ||
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* [[The Great Debate]] - Debating forum | * [[The Great Debate]] - Debating forum | ||
* [[Institute of Ideas]] (together with [[Battle of Ideas]], [[Culture Wars]] and [[Debating Matters]]) - Debating fora | * [[Institute of Ideas]] (together with [[Battle of Ideas]], [[Culture Wars]] and [[Debating Matters]]) - Debating fora | ||
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* [[WORLDwrite]] (together with [[WORLDbytes]]) - international analysis | * [[WORLDwrite]] (together with [[WORLDbytes]]) - international analysis | ||
| − | The LM network appears to have some influence with the [[Genetic Interest Group]], [[Progress]], the [[Science Media Centre]] | + | The LM network appears to have some influence with the [[Genetic Interest Group]], [[Progress]], the [[Science Media Centre]], [[Sense About Science]] and Irish online magazine [[Forth]]. |
==Principal Defunct Associated Organisations== | ==Principal Defunct Associated Organisations== | ||
Revision as of 09:14, 3 May 2010
The LM network or LM group is a loosely constituted network of individuals and organisations sharing an extreme libertarian and anti-environmentalist ideology. It is led and largely comprises individuals associated with the now defunct Revolutionary Communist Party and its principal publication, also defunct, Living Marxism. The network itself has no public presence or acknowleged existence, although associated organisations have overlapping personnel, themes, views and techniques and will promote each other.
Many of the techniques are those of the RCP, including the creation of numerous organisations without apparent formal links, the launching of campaigns, the use of martial terminology and the early adoption of leading edge communication techniques.
A defining characteristic of the network is the positioning of its organisations as catalysts for debate, while in reality the debates are intended to promote their own views. The principal themes of support for economic development and freedom from regulation objectively benefit corporate interests and the larger and more established organisations seek corporate sponsorship, either directly or via PR companies or free enterprise think tanks. Several of the organisations explicitly target young people.
Contents
Principal Current Associated Organisations
- Audacity - Construction
- Big Potatoes - Innovation
- Climate Resistance - Climate change sceptism
- The Great Debate - Debating forum
- Institute of Ideas (together with Battle of Ideas, Culture Wars and Debating Matters) - Debating fora
- Manifesto Club - Anti-regulation
- Future Cities Project (together with ManTownHuman) - Planning/ architecture
- Novo Argumente - German online magazine
- Salons (Regional) - Debating fora
- Spiked (together with Young Journalists Academy) - online magazine
- Trasna An Domhain Go Leir - international analysis
- Voltaire - Swedish online magazine
- WORLDwrite (together with WORLDbytes) - international analysis
The LM network appears to have some influence with the Genetic Interest Group, Progress, the Science Media Centre, Sense About Science and Irish online magazine Forth.
Principal Defunct Associated Organisations
- Africa Direct
- Campaign Against Militarism
- Campaign for Internet Freedom
- Channel Cyberia
- Families for Freedom
- Feminists for Justice
- Freedom & Law
- Global Futures (dormant)
- Internet Freedom
- Irish Freedom Movement
- Libero
- The Litigious Society
- London International Research Exchange
- ME-WE
- Parents Against the Charter
- Transport Research Group
- Workers Against Racism
Associated Personnel
A-C
D-F
G-I
J-L
M-O
P-R
S-U
V-Z
Resources
- Mike Small, 'The Faction That Fools the World' Variant Issue 24, Winter 2005, version placed in web archive 20 April 2007
