File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/marxism-thaxis.9712, message 68


Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 15:30:30 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Blood and soil


>And if Louis wants copyright on the brandname 'left' he's welcome to it.
>But everyone should understand that a left that is organised around the
>themes of the soil, Nature, population concern, love of the land, fear
>of progress, hostility to growth, and the romanticisation of indigenous
>cultures, is not the left envisaged by Marxism.
>
>Fraternally
>-- 
>James Heartfield

So this must mean that you are pleased with the suppression of the Ogoni
protest movement. That Ken Saro-Wira guy was nothing but trouble, standing
in the way of progress, technology and full gas-tanks in Great Britain. I
would certainly prefer to line up with the Body Shop on this question than
the Nigerian colonels and Shell Oil. Do you go to Shell Oil cocktail
parties? I bet they have excellent canapes. These types of soirees probably
have many guests who enjoy professional boxing and fox-hunting as much as
you do.

What will be LM's next TV special programmes? "Manhunt: Ken Saro-Wira
Brought to Justice"; "Shell Oil: Civilizing Savage Africa"; "Why Turning
the Amazon Rainforest into Toothpicks Confirms Volume One of Marx's
Capital". Please keep us apprised.

Louis Proyect



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