who are these leftists? i thought they had all sold out by now??? do they
exist?
> "Tell me - what would you like
> >monsieur le ministre (of whatever) to do at this moment?" And they never
> >had an answer.
**** - i find it highly amusing to read this. Of course we will be talking
past each other forever, as long as we at all deal with notions of
left/right. That spectrum, a symptom of the 20th century's inclination to
ideologies, is as superannuated as it gets. Alexander Stille (unwittingly?!)
puts this into perspective in an article in New York Review of Books, June
21, 2001 (Vol. XLVIII, no. 10) in an Italian context, describing the way in
which it was rather the deeds of ex-communist D'Alema that positioned my old
friend, Il Duce II (Berlusconi) in power. Stille argues that it was not so
much Berlusconi's spin, as it was the backfiring counter-spin of D'Alema
that gave rise to a second emberrasing governance of Italy by an
out-of-control weasel.
Why am i saying this?
Because there is not really anything like left and right anymore. The lines
are very blurry and increasingly the role of politicans appears to be more
about pleasing corporatiosn and interacting with them to keep the economy
afloat (interaction here signifies somehting in the direction of drinking
champagne together, smoking Cuban and sharing whores...)
i think that i would like politicans to address:
1/ why is economy EVERYTHING, how did become to be like that? is a job that
is awful and breaks you down better than not having a job? why are there no
grand attempts to make it more culturally accepted to 'not be a wage slave'
(maybe there are, enlighten me!) if the west is s great and we are so free,
why do people kill themself, turn to drugs and build bombs?
---personally, though, i am much more interested in the emerging structures
(since politicans are no good to talk to).
NGO's are increasingly becoming PGO's (pseudo-governmental organisations)
and a need for real grassroot politics is slowly arising in the vacuum left
behind by the (hypocrits? of) Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and ATTAC
etc.
We are witnessing the global architecture of societies getting added a new
layer: the PGO's and their transmogrification means there is a vacuum
arising.
I guess you could say that the NGO's became PGO's because they fill in the
vacuum that Tony Blair manifested when his socalled Labour Party signed a
contract with McDisease.
Now there is a new role that someone needs to take on: politics. Blair
follows the corporations, PGO's follow Tony Blair (even Bono and Geldof are
well into the Blair-clique) - who are going to do politics, - politics as in
dealing with that which concerns the population or citizens????
--- will we see PGA (People's Global Action) establish a political arm, such
as Global Autonomous Party - GAP,
(just to have a handy acronym - like bridging the gap between rich and poor,
informed and uninformed, have and have-nots.)
Who, if such an initiative sees the light of day, will take on the
responsibility, which is to say: who can deal with communicating with the
hardliners that wants NO organisation or political parlamantarism.
What can and will happen??
We are witnessing the bureaucratic structures getting even more complex.....
Blair is a media artist and Susan George and Co. is hanging around to gain
that position as well, it seems. Public exposure is what they desire (- is
that perverse?).
So, basically i also have nothing to say to a minister, because i know he is
full of *X##¤&/()
I am looking for a someone or something as a replacement for Monsiuer le
Ministre - someone to do the job of the democratically chosen - since they
have sold out.
What is the point of asking a minister something when he is busy selling his
soul to McD????
"What is the point of possesing the world if you do not even posses
yourself" (Matt Johnson, 'Swinefever' from the album The Naked Self)
Why would i talk to a minister - he lies to me.
If Tony Blair is a righteous man, for instance, and my conscience makes me a
terrorist (in Blair's view) although I am a committed pacifist, then i am
proud to be a terrorist and to call for 'seditious' justice, non-violently,
of course......
So, what is all this talk about leftists and their arguments. If you think
that 'the old left' is the dominant force among the youth and the
contemporary social movements you are wrong. We want nothing of any of this
old babble.
The left right spectrum is an illusion - someone are trying to save it by
applying funny terms like centre-left and middle-left-centre-right (just to
make a point!).....
Enough is Enough
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