File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9712, message 141


Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:10:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-gladstone.uoregon.edu>
Subject: M-I: Re: Beating the messenger


On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Mark Jones wrote:

> If Dennis Redmond would care to address the message rather than the
> messenger, I feel sure that Adolfo Olaechea would be happy to oblige
> him.

The problem was, there was no message, just a jumbled mass of verbiage
that sounded like it was cooked up by a CIA propaganda mill desperate for
a post-Cold War budget continuation. Where was the concrete analysis of
what global capital is doing to Peru? Where were the statistics on IMF
intervention? What kind of workers and peasants organizations exist, and
what kind of trade union/developmental struggles are they waging? You'll
find all this in every Zapatista communique; but all Olaechea seems to be
interested in is mapping out the future liquidation camps for un-thinkers
or anyone who disagrees with Ueberchairman Gonzalo. Sorry, but I
already have two horridly repressive, neo-patriarchal religious
channels on my cable TV, and I don't need a third.

-- Dennis



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