Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 21:08:20 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Progress be dammed


>Contents of April 1995 LM:
>
>4 Editorial
>
>6 Letters
>
>8 Taboos: 'Repressed memory': a morbid symptom Michael Fitzpatrick
>
This article deals with the question of why many leftists still believe
that the World Bank is a rotten, bourgeois institution designed to promote
glitzy development projects in the 3rd World at poor people's expense.
Fitzpatrick suggests that the answer is our fear of risk-taking, a product
of our refusal to live the kind of life that Marx himself lead. The answer?
Cuban Cigars, turbocharged Land Rovers and front row seats at "strong men"
fights.

>11 Ann Bradley
>

Ann Bradley was the women who sued her local nuclear power plant company
because her newborn triplets came out of her womb with noses growing out of
their foreheads. LM suggests that Bradley has succumbed to Heideggerian
romanticism and bourgeois loss of nerve.


>12 What's left and who's right now? Frank F=FCredi
>

The Left consists of those individuals in society who have developed the
inner resources necessary to conquer nature and develop technology. The
prime example cited is Irving Lunin. Check the article yourself and you
will see it all spelled out. Unless of course, LM has destroyed the
evidence. Wouldn't put it past them myself, these quoters of Rush Limbaugh.

>16 The parties are over James Heartfield
>

This refers to the cocktail parties that Shell Oil threw in 1995. James is
the social editor of LM, as well as the books editor. The last soiree was a
doozie. A topless dancer busted out of a big cake shaped like an oilwell.

>18 Give them enough Eu-rope Helen Simons

This article is a travelogue of a high-speed tour of the autobahn with
descriptions of all the 4 star restaurants that cater to people with an
affinity for Atlas Shrugged and the Grundrisse.

>
>20 The West's fundamental fears Tracey Brown
>

This describes the fear that middle-class subscribers to LM have of losing
access to cheap fuel. LM recommends a more aggressive posture to the
Ogonis.  It invites readers to join an international brigade to go fight on
behalf of Shell Oil. The brigade's flag is a carburetor embossed with a
hammer-and-sickle.

>27 Israel's new Berlin Wall Eve Anderson

>
>28 Futures: Who's afraid of global warming? John Gillott and Dominic
>Wood
>

You've heard it all here. That's the real joke. A sick one.

>31 Inside the new South Africa Charles Longford
>
>34 Barings collapse Phil Murphy
>37 Toby Banks

>38 Living:
>Boxing

This is no joke. These knuckleheads think its fun to watch black men beat
each other into unconsciousness.

>The Madness of King George
>Richard Rogers
>43 The Marxist Review of Books
>
>--

Louis Proyect




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