Article on Pinochet

[Jim heartfield]

Thanks to Tom and Sol for their comment on my article - especially since
Sol's collection State and Capital (with John Holloway, Edward Arnold
publishers, 1978) was one of the first books that really got me into
Marxism, and still has pride of place on my bookshelves.

I hope I am not insensible to the difficulties faced by the Chilean
left, nor the opportunities offered by the re-opening of the debate.
There's nothing I would like more than to be proved wrong, in this
instance.

My fear, though, is that on the terrain of human rights diplomacy, the
relative weakness of the left is just what makes it possible for the
ascendance of an ideologically perverted human rights discourse, whose
practical content favours the subordination of the third world.

fraternally
-- 
Jim heartfield