Re: M-I: Mythologising Native Americans

1998-01-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Heartfield: The man who is tired of London is tired of life, Dr Johnson said. Like Mark Jones, Louis Proyect's rural idyll is just the inverted projection of his hatred of the masses. It is not that he likes native Americans, its that he doesn't like those teeming masses of immigrant Americans,

Re: M-I: Mythologising Native Americans

1998-01-06 Thread James Heartfield
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Mander, Shiva and Sale have taken a close look at how such peoples live and come to the conclusion that the city is much more idiotic. I kind of go along with them. Where I part company is in the belief that the answer is some

Re: M-I: Mythologising Native Americans

1998-01-05 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: This is the 150th anniversery of the Communist Manifesto. Mike Albert's attack on the Manifesto has been circulating on the Internet and is the subject of an intense debate on Marxism-International between Doug Henwood and Chris Warren, a dogmatist from Australia. The irony

Re: M-I: Mythologising Native Americans

1998-01-05 Thread Louis Proyect
The unlikely question of whether the north American tribes or the Zemstvos represent missed opportunity is surely a laughably academic one - unless of course Proyect is suggesting that we go back to that stage, before going forward again to socialism: the most extreme version of the theory of