File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9711, message 309


Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 17:44:55 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Dogmatics of nature


James Heartfield:
>This point is generally misunderstood by romantics who take the myths of
>nature origin as good coin, expressing real relations. Misunderstanding
>that such myths only reflect man's relation to nature in an inverted
>way. The imaginative appropriation of nature to man, suipplements the
>failure of the actual appropriation of nature to man in modern science.
>This is Marx point when he says that the myth of Prometheus is bound to
>give way in the face of the steam engine, which does in fact, take fire
>from the Gods, what Prometheus does in fantasy.
>

James, you've said this already about nine thousand times. What is about
cult membership that turns people into automatons. I just don't get it. I
once suggested to your pal Bedggood that instead of making a long-winded
speech about the need to build Bolshevik parties, that he simply refer to a
code. For example, X4565 would mean that  unless the workers forge a
revolutionary party under Trotskyist leadership, blah-blah-blah.

You are turning into the same kind of bore. Except with you it is the same
song and dance about Prometheus, romanticism, and the need to drive fast
cars. What's the matter with you, you forgot to drag in poor old Heidegger
this time.

I write about the impact of fertilizers on sea life and you write about how
bad romanticism is. I write about the amount of energy consumed to produce
copper and you remind us about the myth of Prometheus. Yawn.

You got the same problem as every other "revolutionary communist" who shows
up here. You run out of things to say. Unless it is part of your catechism,
you've got nothing to say. What a windbag you are turning into. Pretty soon
even I might get bored with you and start ignoring you. And I find
cult-sect specimens endlessly fascinating.

Why don't you favor us with one of your other pet obsessions. Like how
great it is to go out and bag a deer and then bring the carcass back home
to your little woman in the kitchen and have her fix a venison stew. And
then when you're done with that, you can tell us about how rape isn't
nowhere as bad as its cracked up to be--another one of your kind of nutty
ideas.

Louis Proyect





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