---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 06:08:02 -0700 (PDT) To: •••@••.••• From: Jay Kinney <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#933> The Guardian: The Ominous Shades of 1939 Richard, You know, something didn't seem quite right about the rhetoric of that article supposedly appearing in The Guardian, the British daily paper. So I decided to double check it. I couldn't find the article anywhere at the Guardian site (http://www.guardian.co.uk) and decided to do a search for "Rob Gowland". That led me to a site for "The Guardian, a weekly paper published by the Communist Party of Australia!! There the article appears under the headline "Imperialism Looking After Imperialism." (see: http://www.peg.apc.org/~guardian/guardian/guardian.htm) Someone took that article, switched it to a more mainstream sounding headline and led you to think it had appeared in the British mainstream daily. Just thought you'd like to know. Jay -------------- Dear Jay, Many thanks for the correction. If I had known, I probably would have published something else... the main interest to me was finding such a perspective in what seemed to be a mainstream source. In hindsight, I believe my wishful thinking was clouding my judgement - perhaps something like that would appear in Le Monde, but not likely _The Guardian. I'm glad your judgement was clearer and that you dug up the facts. I can now understand why Rob is stuck with his out-of-date perspective - Marxist thinkers adjust their ideological course - in the face of unforseen developments - with the same agility as the Titanic. Nonetheless, the article was a well-written one, with good thinking behind it, and there's no reason for us to dismiss it because of where it came from. your buddy, rkm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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