File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9712, message 186


Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:47:34 -0800
From: Mark Jones <Jones_M-AT-netcomuk.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: New Aesthetics or Old Politics?


Gary, this is excellent. I pointed out in the past how NLR harbours
known MI6 agents. Doug chased me on this then relapsed into embarassed
silence (I wodered why but didn't then know that he had a book in the 
NLR works). 

Now the true scale of MI5 megalomania is plain to all - nothing less 
than a reconstruction of aesthetics and the interiority of consciousness 
is in view. Their notion of panopticon has gone beyond installing CCTV in
every mall to scrutinising the mental contents themselves of the happy
shoppers.

And when you say:


> One longs here for a true revolutionary wolf like Gonzalo to descend
> snarling and snapping upon these sheep in sheep's clothing and to give them
> the savaging they so richly deserve.
>
The point is taken. I have passed your message onto the appropriate
persons...

Mark
PS I do not read NLR, so please do not hesitate to break their copyright
and download their articles for our edification (when I was a young
lad Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn passed themselves off
as the 'general staff of the revolution' along with then-firebrand,
now chat-show star Tariq Ali. Blackburn and Anderson continued
their Long March Thru History. Anderson stopped soon after 1066,
seemingly when he realised that slagging off Maurice Dobb would not
be enough; it was also necessary to engage with the concept of
'mode of production', not ala Shaikh but ala Marx. But Blackburn 
has got as far as another giant tome on the 18th
centruy slave trade, which is just what we needed right now, of course).



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