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Here, richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician¹s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. With the modification of the relevant personal pronouns, Hilaire Belloc¹s famous ditty seems particularly apt today. How to remember Margaret Thatcher? Shall we recall the friend of Augustus Pinochet, the woman who protested bitterly about the arrest of Chile¹s murderous dictator, a man to whom, she said, Britain owed so much? What about the staunch ally of apartheid, the prime minister who labelled the ANC Œterrorists¹ and did everything possible to undermine international action against the racist regime? The anti-union zealot who described striking miners defending their livelihood as an Œenemy within¹, hostile to liberty? The militarist who prosecuted the Falklands war, as vicious as it was pointless? The Cold Warrior, who stood by Reagan¹s side, while the US conducted its genocidal counterinsurgencies in Latin America? The British chauvinist who allowed Bobby Sands to slowly starve to death? Naturally, the Left must resist any and all attempts to posthumously sanctify this evil woman, particularly as the very publications that launched disinformation campaigns about Hugo Chavez with his corpse still warm suddenly denounce any discussion of genuine history as an outrageous attack on the recently departed. Stay tuned for a ghastly parade of social democrats paying tribute to a woman who despised their kind and worse still, the disinterment of various ex-radicals to mutter about how, while they hated Thatcher back in the day, they now belatedly mourn the passing of a political giant. Full http://overland.org.au/blogs/new-words/2013/04/on-margaret-thatcher/ VUFootscray Park Campus PO Box 14428 MELBOURNE VIC 8001 t: 03 9689 6910 e: overl...@vu.edu.au w: www.overland.org.au <http://www.overland.org.au/> This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
