From: John Holloway (johnholloway@PRODIGY.NET.MX)
Date: Thu May 17 2007 - 08:17:23 EDT
Thanks Jerry, the comparison with the Irish Setter is fun. John El 17/5/07 06:34, "glevy@PRATT.EDU" <glevy@PRATT.EDU> escribió: > 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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