[lbo-talk] 'Desperado'

[Joseph Wanzala]

In brave neo-South Africa today, where many former anti-apartheid stalwarts 
are now fully fledged capitalists presiding over worse conditions for 
ordinary South Africans than under apartheid (indeed people speak 
nostalgically about 'the good old days under apartheid') no-one would 
begrudge Ronstadt for having played in Sun City. Issues such as who did or 
did not play in Sun City were purely symbolic matters that failed to address 
the fundamental questions under apartheid. It should have been as much of 
crime to play in Lagos given that the government of Nigeria was as callous 
to its people as the govt. in South Africa. To the extent apartheid was a 
variant of capitalism and to the extent capitalism is embraced in 
post-apartheid South Africa and to the extent the music industry is also 
capitalist, there is little significance to Ronstadt having played in Sun 
City.

And the essential point, which you have not addressed, remains that Ronstadt 
is 'a lefty' or certainly a liberal (those terms being rather 
interchangeable) and that is why she supported Moore and was attacked for 
doing so.

Joe W.


>From: "Michael Pugliese" <michael098762001 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] 'Desperado'
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:32:54 -0700
>
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:09:40 -0700, Joseph Wanzala <jwanzala at hotmail.com>  
>wrote:
>
>>So what Pugliese? What's your point? - the salient fact is that today  she 
>>*is* 'a known lefty' which is a loose term and broad category  including a 
>>whole host of people who may not qualify as 'left radicals'  depending on 
>>whose gauge you are using, but are certainly part of the  'left' broadly 
>>speaking. The piece I posted was about how the entire  Vegas affair was 
>>manipulated by the Republicans; your tendentiousness  would only seem to 
>>give collateral support to their efforts.
>>
>>Joe W.
>
>    Heh, yup Pugliese, Karl Rove's left pinky. HEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
>     She got $500,000 to play Sun City.
>     "We are here to protest Linda's cultural collaboration with the racist 
>  regime and to reconfirm the solidarity and support of the American people 
>  with the oppressed masses that are rising in South Africa."
>
>
>--
>Michael Pugliese
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