[Dialogue] A final note

[frank bremner]

Good morning again: 

 

Here's a final late night comment.

 

Re "The Seven Revolutions".  When reading all of Doug Rossinow's The Politics of Authenticity, not only the chapter on the early community in Texas that spawned the group that became EI/ICA/O:E etc, I was struck by how group after group searched for the one thread or analysis or ideology or mode of action which would be the one, the perfect one.

 

The lack of success of The New Left in America was that it not embrace a multiplicity of revolutions which interacted with each other, sometimes in creative tension - whereas these days people are more familiar with complexity, more likely to be stunned and paralysed by it, and much less attracted by one-dimensional solutions, analyses and so on.

 

Bill Bigelow, where are you?  The day before you left for W Samoa we saw The Life of Brian, with those wonderful lines about the the Liberation Front of Palestine, and the Palestinian Liberation Front, and the Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and .....  Echoes of the Leninist Association, the Marxist-Leninist Club, the Marxist-Leninist Club (USSR) , the Marxist-Leninist Club (Peking) and so on.

 

By the way , in the book Scorcese on Scorcese, the director does a great review of his experience of biblical and religious epics and movies, from Cecil B de Mille onwards to his own The Last Temptation of Christ (book by Nikos Kazantzakis).  He praises the Monty Python crowd for their knowledge of what they were sending up.

 

Cheers, all ... Frank
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