Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:42:47 +1000 (EST)
From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: M-I: Corrupted Power


Louis,

This was exremely interesting in a horrid sort of way.  When reading stuff
like this I honestly feel that  we need to revive the old Sartrean notion of
'bad faith'.  But here the bad is truly shocking.

Capitalism was always dripping blood and dirt from every pore as Marx put
it.  I believe that these bastards having put all their efforts into winning
the Cold War are like something out of MacBeth.  They have it all and they
played most foully for it.  Now they feel their secret murders sticking on
their hands and they expect us somehow to listen to the agonisings of their
consciences.

Do you know the passage in Fanon where he tells of the white Alegerian
torturer who came to him because he had been beating up his family?  The
torturer want Fanon to cure him of his nervous crisis so he could go back to
his job of torturing. 

This scum is like that I think.



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