| richard barbrook on 9 Oct 2000 01:23:53 -0000 |
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| Re: <nettime> HORST MAHLER: THE ROLE OF A SAD SACK |
Hiya, I'd like to point out that John Barker wrote this article and *not* me. I thought that this was clear from the subheading on the piece. As for his observations on the close similarities between ultraleftism and fascism, some of the recent postings on nettime are yet more proof of the correctness of this analysis. It is scary when self-styled 'radical' intellectuals are so blinded by ideological certainty that they were able to ignore the crimes of the Milosevic regime - and even thought that it was clever to make propaganda on behalf of this racist monster. Have these people learnt nothing from the tragedies of the last century? Obviously not. As George Orwell pointed out in the 1940s, such intellectuals need only take one short step further to go from being implicitly fascist to becoming overtly fascist... Later, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Communications and Creative Industries University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP <www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk> +44 (0)20 7911 5000 x 4590 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "While there is irony, we are still living in the prehistoric age. And we are not out of it yet..." - Henri Lefebvre ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to keep in touch with what is happening at the HRC, you can subscribe to our Friends mailing list on: http://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/lists.friends.db # 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: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]