Re: AUT: RE: what is to be done with what is to be done?

["Carlos Timonero" <carlostimonero@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well - don't keep your breath to long.
May be I don't get your message here. But somehow I like this conversation.

Just keep on Dough !

Carlos

>From: Nate Holdren
>
>Ouch, yeah, ditto Harald. Perhaps a deep breath is in order?
>
>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:47:41 +0200, Harald Beyer-Arnesen wrote: > > -----
>Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Henwood" > To: > Sent: Friday, October
>29, 2004 3:32 PM > Subject: Re: AUT: RE: what is to be done with what is to
>be done? > > Dough, I am not sure of the value of distributing the below on
>the list. > > Harald > > > This, of course, is my favorite part: > > > >
> >And then, of course, Doug Henwood, the extremely intelligent > > >and
>fantastically entertaining American Marxist finance journalist > finished >
> > >off the conference in great party-thrashing style (I recall a similar >
> > >performance at the Geert Lovink-initiated conference in Amsterdam,
>where > > >many of us met last year). > > > > But this is pretty
>interesting: > > > > >The conference was a disaster mostly because of
>Zizek's two hand-picked > > >sidekicks. One Sebastian Burgen (or
>something), your perfect cold-as-ice > > >Marxist sectarian psychopath
>politruk only too trigger-happy as the head > of > > >the conference . A
>self-acclaimed British Leninist-Trotskyist, > "Sebastian" > > >might just
>as well have been your average Mormon or Jehovah's Witness. > The > > >kind
>of guy who goes to Pyongyang to satisfy his sadist (or masochist) > taste >
> > >for oriental pussy and has few if any friends anywhere else. And a
>living > > >example of why we do NOT want to return to any "dictatorship"
>of the > > >proletariat. "Sebastian" would have had every Foucauldian and
>Deleuzian > in > > >the world killed his first minute in office... > >
> >"Sebastian" had consequently completely misunderstood Zizek's ambition >
>(as > > >if he was ever capable of understanding Zizek, his world was just
>"Zizek > is > > >OK cause he likes my Hero-God Lenin and has resources and
>fame") and > > >therefore filled half the schedule with mainly defunct and
>asocial > > >Trotskyists who had nothing but their classic, tiresome rubble
>to > perform. > > >And then "Sebastian" made sure dialogue at the
>conference was reduced to > an > > >absolute minimum. > > > > Really makes
>you want to run out & buy the book, doesn't it? > > > > Doug

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