From: "jurriaan bendien" <Jbendien-AT-globalxs.nl>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: A New Agenda
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:21:41 +0100


In response to James Heartfield:

In my day it was the Boomtown Rats, the B52's, The Cars and Blondie (Jeez
I'm getting old).  I incline towards James's view, although, as I imagine
he would agree, there is a lot more to be said about it.  It was more or
less the same story in New Zealand since 1984, which meant that the Left
with its moral communautarian propaganda  was left for dead. Finance
Minister Roger Douglas was just "nasty" and a "traitor" and the capitalists
were "greedy" people.  The Labour Party was "hijacked" by free market
fanatics.  And so forth.  The entire framework of Left-wing thinking was
simply defective in the face of the neo-liberal onslaught (what was "neo"
about it incidentally ?).  The socialists and communists could have an
appearance of radicality under the cloak of Labourism, but when that went,
they were left pretty inarticulate, and retreated if anything to pure
dogma.   




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