----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin
> What's wrong with left jargon ? Every left generation has to have its
own. I kinda thought
> "racist scum in on the run, protesting is lots of fun, we're
> > tearing down the WTO, join the Communist party "
>
> was some of the Next Left's JARGON or is jingles, jangles ? marchsongs.
>
> CB
>
>
> >
>
> >>> "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> 05/02/00 11:48PM >>>
> Cockburn's father was even better in pillorying the party for left jargon.
> For example, the CP once issued a dictum about the party newspaper stating
> that "the organ must penetrate the backward sections of the working
> classes." Cockburn pointed out that most workers would see this as a sick
> joke. The CP did not appreciate this insight.
> CK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Zizek's Lenin
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Charles Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Alex Cockburn wrote something similar 20 years ago quoting his father,
> > > Claude the commie, from 50 years earlier still, who complained that
the
> > > typical communist speech in Hyde Park went something like "Friends,
even
> > > now our comrades are hanging from the thumbscrews of British
Imperialism
> > > in India; even now our comrades are being crushed under the jackboots
of
> > > British Imperialism in South Africa; even how are comrades being
beaten
> to
> > > a pulp by the rabble of British Imperialism in Ireland; friends, join
> the
> > > Communist Party."
> > >
> > > CB: As opposed to "We have the best of everything in the best of all
> > > possible worlds. Join the Communist Party. "
> >
> > No, more like: racist scum in on the run, protesting is lots of fun,
we're
> > tearing down the WTO, join the Communist party.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
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> > Michael Pollak................New York
City..............mpollak at panix.com
> >
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