Anita: Thanks for publishing the article and subsequent exchange. It was originally published in the Red Eureka Movement's "Discussion Bulletin" (Number 8?) so any proof reading should be from that and no other approval is needed. I have previously explained to you that the additional reply "Some thoughts on “outline on technology and progress” and on the author’s reply to the first critique thereon." was not published at the time as it was not worth publishing without a further comment and it was not worth writing a further comment. Unless the author of that turns up and wants it published I see no point. That is presumably why you already added a note to that effect at the start. Just leave it unpublished.
What would be useful rather than this sort of request for comment about nothing in particular would be some discussion of the difference in analysis between that article (claiming that people are looking for barriers to capital other than capital itself and blaming bourgeois ideology for undermining the orthodox marxist view) and the analysis presented by Spiked (blaming misanthropy and calling on the bourgeoisie to have more faith in itself and others to have more faith in it).
Both positions are progressive and hostile to the reactionary opposition to technology and progress. But the difference in perspective ought to be worth developing.
In general I'd like to see some development from ideas that were already clear more than a quarter of a century ago.
This can only happen when people stop huddling in a corner talking to themselves and take on debate with other sites, in which case they will find a need for both old and new material and the enthusiasm to produce it.
Neither cold pricklies nor warm fuzzies are any use as a substitute.
Abstention from struggle keeps people down and makes them misanthropic. Its certainly making me feel like delivering only cold pricklies as long as it continues as I simply don't feel comradely to people who don't act like comrades in the sense of being engaged as fighters in a common struggle against common enemies.
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