>Should we discredit Thomas Deichmann & his article "The Picture that
>Fooled the World," for instance, because he published it in LM,
>though he also published it in _NATO in the Balkans_? Should we also
>dismiss everything that Jared Israel has said, because he cited the
>article in LM (e.g.
><http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~richardj/Docs/a_truly_heroic_resistance.htm>),
>decried the miscarriage of justice in the libel suit against it (at
><http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/of.htm.), etc., even
>though he later criticized LM & Deichmann's legal defense strategies
>(at <http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/missing.htm>)?
That's when they were still the RCP and the magazine was called Living
Marxism. Ten years ago, in fact. That's sort of where Phil Ferguson is
today, identifying with positions that the RCP defended a decade ago. But
time marches on.
>Try to keep an open mind. There is no necessity to dismiss anything
>& everything published by James Heartfield & LM in order to remain
>critical of their views on feminism, the environment, etc. The same
>goes for any other author or publication. One culls useful info
>everywhere it appears, including works by bourgeois journalists,
>scientists, government employees, etc.
>
>Yoshie
This is not about keeping an open mind. It is about how to characterize a
loosely-knit organization in Great Britain that appears devoted to
defending the agenda of the most vicious corporations around questions of
consumer safety, health, etc. It simply doesn't matter that one of its
adherents can quote Marx like the devil quotes scripture. We are dealing
with a situation where a British cult promotes the environmentalist
policies of the incoming Bush administration while carefully cultivating
the support of student radicals like you and journalists like Doug Henwood.
Louis Proyect
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