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

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

1998-01-05 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 iro

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