Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 18:28:56 +0100
From: Alastair Dickson <adickson-AT-post.almac.co.uk>
Subject: Re: open letter to Stewart Home: for distribution (fwd)


rose-AT-thorn.net wrote
>But we do know that Home's bluffery extends to at least 
>two levels: he will pretend to know facts that he doesn't in fact know; 
>and he will pretend to hold opinions that he actually doesn't hold.
>       That's what happening when Home -- apparently quite serious, 
>again wearing his best poker face -- writes in his "Introduction" that, 
>"There are numerous parallels to be drawn between the SI and the 
>far-Right."

It may be relevant to mention that in Moscow last Spring, "Limonka", the
National Bolshevik Party's paper, ran an obituary of Debord by "the guru
of the new right here, Alexander Dugin", to quote a letter I received,
which went on: "There is a quite clear tendency to incorporate anything
interesting from leftist/anti-authoritarian tradition into the emerging
new right ideology. Dugin tries to do it 'intelligently', the rest of
the collective does it in a stupid but aggressive manner (basically
writing that the leftists/ anti-authoritarians took this and that idea
>from fascists - Evola, Hegel, etc. - with no proof for such statements.
They also use outright lies - here 'they' means fascists in general.)
So, poor Debord - he was placed next to vicious racist diatribes and a
manual how to build a Nazi party."
>
>       We call upon Stewart Home to clarify his positions on the 
>insinuated anti-Semitism of both Greil Marcus and the Situationist 
>International. Furthermore, we call upon him to unequivocally denounce 
>anti-Semitism itself

I must say that this "we call upon" style of writing/rhetoric always
seems to rely on the idea that everything is inscribed in a Book of
History - presumably one which will be read back to us at the Last
Trump.  Is it not time to discard that mode of congregational
politicking?

Anyway, this crosses strangely over Home's other recent writing which
has been pissing-off some people, i.e. the rancorous debate with Green
Anarchist, etc.  And in his pamphlet "Green Apocalypse", we read
"Equally disturbing is the way in which Green Anarchist appears to be
reviving in a coded form, and probably quite unconsciously on the part
of its activists, an aspect of Bakunin's ideology which has been dropped
like a hot potato by most of his more recent apologists, that is to say
his anti-semiticism."  So the insinuations bounce back and forth...
>

-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
-- <alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk>


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