to no one, while the countries that are provoking a
war in the Gulf, the US and Britain, are allowed to gather weapons of
mass destruction without a challenge.
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James Heartfield
where it lies, not indulge in a guilt-
fest. As Freud said guilt is just self-indulgence.
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James Heartfield
ecognize the horrors that are
continuing unabated in Ireland. It is time for justice and a
legitimate peace process.
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than those of
parliament (previously a taboo in British constitutional theory) for the
first time. Permanent scandal is getting to be the norm for the
political process in most countries.
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James Heartfield
In message l03102805b0f90ec15daf@[166.84.250.86], Doug Henwood
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James Heartfield wrote:
Permanent scandal is getting to be the norm for the
political process in most countries.
Replacing real politics, I suppose, a process the U.S. probably leads the
world in.
I wrote
ily Mirror newspaper (UK): 'Fornigate'
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cases you would depending on the entrenched
power of capital to defend workers' interests, and, at the same time,
giving the West a stick to beat its rivals in Asia with.
I think there is something creepy about those Western leaders who
complain about low wages in every country but their own.
Republicans.
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In message Pine.GSO.3.95.980121124314.9867C-10@earth, valis
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James Heartfield concluded:
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness
have come away with less than even Yasser Arafat settled for.
A pretty pointless comparison, since
were bombed was certainly different
from that of those who watched the events on TV.
I guess you could say this, keeping in mind that Baudrillard does
not celebrate but criticizes our post-modern society; and
criticism presupposes enlightenment...
Does he criticise or celebrate. I read Fatal Strategi
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-fashioned view that maturity is indeed a better thing than
childishness, I take Baudrillard's temper tantrum as evidence of
childishness.
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outlook, because both are an expression of the
anti-enlightenment thinking. From this reactionary standpoint it is
right to say that Marxism and Capitalism share the same prejudice
towards progress and development.
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James Heartfield
uot;
given when the alternative is a slow and horrible death.
This is all very well, but you seem to be arguing that there is no
difference between wage slavery and slavery, or between adulthood and
childhood.
To argue that the power of capital is coercive surely does not mean that
we might as wll be slaves, does it?
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James Heartfield
rong. The sex-workers comments were not aimed at
coerced or non-consensual prostitution, but at prostitutes who bject to
being criminalised in the name of saving their honour.
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I ask you! The idea that this kind of obscurantist
rubbish has got anything to do with socialism is absurd.
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the
issue, adopted the cause of the native Americans. I suggest, like much
of the 'new social movements' rhetoric, has more to do with a failure to
make any great inroads into the American working class, than with a
particular dynamic within those movements.
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James Heartfield
n no sense resembles a settler state
like Zimbabwe or Israel, since native Americans do not constitute the
exploited class in the US. No matter to Louis, for whom understanding
the specificity of distinctive historical periods is just a distraction
from the true lesson of history: nothing ever
of these treaties today, what role exactly does land
ownership play in socialism?
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ers.'
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themselves, not in any innate character of
Indian land claims. These were the vessel through which a quite new kind
of struggle was being fought, effectively the beginning of identity
politics in the US.
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e standard Marxist interpretation to a fresh
re-evaluation. My sources will be scholarly histories of today, not
selective quotes from Marx.
I look forward to reading it.
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our little moral universe of good and evil and
most be short-circuited as quickly as possible. Real social classes, and
the different social relations that sustain them are quickly merged into
a caricature of 'rich and poor'.
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James Heartfield
over your apartment to the Algonquin?
Such emotionalism leads to a wholly rhetorical radicalism whose grand
gestures are in inverse proportion to its seriousness.
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it, and there is a great deal of critique of science,
especially of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and of
chaos theory, as I recollect.
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James Heartfield
rights against oppression. But that must mean that
indigenous peoples' have a right to scure their own economic
development, as well as a right to seek work.
There really is no way forward but forward.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis
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James Heartfield:
Whatever attitude we today might want to take towards the rights of
indigenous peoples, it is difficult to find a case for them within the
writings of Marx and Engels (whose attitude seems at times close
esentation, ahistoricism, insult and an
inability to stick to the point is an example of his
Absolutely
loathsome stuff and antithetical to Marxism as I will prove.
You already have proved it.
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,
Roman Rosdolsky, Critique Books 1987
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James Heartfield
culmination of
the land rights came with the Chiliasmic uprising of Sitting Bulls
spirit dance, when Native Americans realised that there was nowhere
further West to go and tried to fight. The ensuing slaughter brought an
end to the Native American people as a collective entity.
James Heartfield
doesn't he go the
whole hog and endorse the IMF austerity package in Korea: after all,
that should reduce the number of car users in Seoul.
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