From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu May 17 2007 - 07:34:41 EDT
Another textbook example of how _not_ to seriously engage the political positions of others on the Left is provided by the "unrepentant" Louis N. Proyect. Note, especially, the photo of John H selected by the unrepentant. Of course, it's entirely accidental that the dog referred to was an _Irish_ Setter. In solidarity, Jerry > Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:50:52 -0400 > From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@PANIX.COM> > Subject: [PEN-L] John Holloway's complaint >With the resurgence of a Latin American left >expressed mainly by elected governments >challenging the capitalist system to one degree >or another, there has been a corresponding >decline of "autonomist" currents such as the >EZLN and the more ideologically disposed >supporters and members of the piqueteros and >recovered factories movement in Argentina. It is >understandably hard to get worked up over >Subcommandante Zero's latest communiqué when >Hugo Chavez is changing class relationships on the ground. > >Standing in the same relationship to the >autonomist currents that Regis Debray once had >with the rural guerrilla groups of the 1960s, >British professor John Holloway has been forced >to take stock of the situation in an interview >conducted by Maria Sitrin, an Argentine autonomist. > >Holloway is the author of "How to Change the >World Without Taking Power" that I reviewed >here. It basically argues that "If the state >paradigm was the vehicle of hope for much of the >century, it became more and more the assassin of >hope as the century progressed." It is good for >workers to rebel in his view but not good to >rule. Whenever I think about such arguments, I >am reminded of how my mother's Irish Setter >loved to chase cars up our country road but >would always return after a few hundred feet of >barking wildly. I thought to myself at the time >that she wouldn't know what to do with a car if >she actually caught one. For Holloway, the >working class is in the same situation as my mom's Irish Setter. > >full: <http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/john-holloways-complaint/>
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