Richard Barbrook on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:14:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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Hiya, If it means anything, reloading Marx can't involve this hero-worshipping Trotsky and his fellow Bolshevik leaders whose government dissolved Russia's 1st elected parliament, ended local democracy, closed down opposition media, imprisoned trade unionists and invaded other people's countries. As long as Zizek and co carry on misidentifying communism with a defunct totalitarian police state, the apologists of big banks and big business can appear in such documentaries knowing that these critics - in contrast with Marx himself - have no credible vision for the liberation of humanity... Richard ======================= Dr. Richard Barbrook Dept of Politics and IR, University of Westminster 32-38 Wells Street LONDON W1T 3UW England +44 (0)7879 441873 Skype: richard.barbrook Facebook: Richard Barbrook http://www.classwargames.net http://www.imaginaryfutures.net http://www.theclassofthenew.net http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/other-works âThe proletarian revolution is that critique of human geography through which individuals and communities will begin constructing places and events suitable for the re-appropriation not only of their labour, but also of their total history. By virtue of the resulting mobile spaces of play, and by virtue of freely chosen variations in the rules of the game, the autonomy of place and the authenticity of life will be discovered.â Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org