McKenzie Wark on 26 Feb 2001 06:34:08 -0000 |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> In Defence of Agreement! |
Finally some sense from the Debordians! Now here is a statement to which I would happily subscribe. David Cox writes of "...the importance of friendship, adventure and the romance of social change. The idea is to promote the fact that people can change society, and routinely do change society. Debord was able to always demonstrate that ideas can become actions, and that it is possible to work from the margins to effect action alongside a poetry of proposals which everyone can identify with." Mind you it is usually what Keith thinks of as 'medicocrity' that are the kinds of proposals that matter to 'everyone'. Since Doug Henwood has turned down his Trotskyist abuse filter a notch, i'll respond to him for a change. Ok, so we've given up pining for revolution, and pretend Marx has no responsibility for Stalinism, so what have you got left to write home about? All of the actual successes in the 20th century history of the labour movement come from the non-Marxist camp. That capitalism has some civilised edges is not to be credited to its generosity but to the struggle to make it so, by organised labour, its political expression as social democracy, and the social movements. I'm not disputing the anaytic use of Marxist thought, but its viability as a political program. As a program, it is a history of failure. If it is indeed to be thought a 'theory of praxis', then from the failure of the practice ought to come some scepticism about the comprehensiveness of the theory. k _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold