File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/97-04-23.075, message 9


Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:03:58 GMT
From: graemi2006-AT-rmplc.co.uk (graeme imray)
Subject:  Re: With Friends Like "Dilbert".. .and the German Revolution


Dear All

I am not a fan of 'Dilbert' [but on the other hand I'm not in favour of
condemning anyone who is], but on another list based in Australia, I came
across a project for a 'Satire Workshop' which would obviously include
cartoons.

I quote

>What passes as satire is so often just
>sterile grumbling invigorated by a few laughs. We are encouraged to
>abhor commitment and to treat our social existence with ambiguity,
>even indifference. When you are in two minds about something you may
>be distant enough to recognize how ridiculous it may seem, but satire
>is another thing all together. Satire takes sides.  It's against this
>and against that - an irreverent political rascal who won't shut up.

. . . .

>If you draw, write, sing, act or interested in joining a satire
>newsgroup - and you're keen that your talents and enthusiasm  be
>utilized for a greater good - then get in touch with the Satire
>Workshop. Email: Dave Riley <dhell-AT-ozemail.com.au>

Maybe some of you may  be interested.



On another tack, I am pleased that the stuff that Bob posted on the
Subversion website has generated some comment. I was simply concerned that
it be given wider circulation, since at one stage in my life along with
others in the old Workers Voice group here in Liverpool it served to push
us along in our 'heresy'. There is no point it seems to me in arguing over
the correctness or otherwise of the KAPD, AAUD or AAUD-E's politics. One of
the strengths of 'Autonomy' as I understand it [and I'm not sure I would
call myself one] is to look for clues to a new movement in modern social
conditions - plainly it is impossible to recreate the movement that was the
German Left. But IMHO, they were perhaps the autonomists of their day. That
is it was their methodology we should look at rather than their particular
solutions or diagnoses of their situation.

Lastly towards the end of this movement when it had disintegrated into
small discussion groups with no influence on any real movement, some in the
GIK attempted to ask some fundamental questions about the nature of
communism, what the 'economic laws of motion' of a communist society might
be. Today we do not see any discussion of this kind of question [except to
dismiss it out of hand]  which comes anywhere near the level of
sophistication of this movement. It is entirely possible that the GIK were
wrong, heroically wrong with the solution they came up with, but a modern
movement must move beyond what they were able to achieve.

It is not enough for us to say what we are against - we must begin say what
we are for.

Gra




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