[lbo-talk] Derrida on Heartfield

[shag carpet bomb]

At 02:39 PM 4/10/2009, James Heartfield wrote:
>Chris writes
>
> >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.
>
>Which only goes to show that historians of the future or disembodied 
>floating heads (Laputans?) are not reliable guides.

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shag