>From the standpoint of a historian in the future, or that of a Disembodied Floating Head in the present, liberalism and marxism and fascism will probably actually appear to be variants of a single set of ideas, much as in retrospect the religious wars of the 1600s appear to us today as a squabble between two insignificantly varying sects, even though it certainly wasn't experienced that way by the participants.
I've gotten in trouble for saying this before, but it's true. ;)
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I mean
> that a critique that in its basic outlines is applicable to
> all ideologies, is one that treats their actual content as
> incidental, addressing only their form. It reduces
> liberalism to marxism to fascism. All are 'grand
> narratives'. To push the point one could say that it leaves
> them all untouched in their particulars. Deconstruction can
> sit happily alongside an ironic, self-knowing imperialism,
> such as we see argued by the EU official Robert Cooper.
>