[spectre] Re: (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

[Matze Schmidt]

> are you sure Matze you understand what you are saying?
> cultural revolution? 
> you are really sweet

I don't think that this is somehow sweet.
Weiwei ist deeply related --and he claims this here and there in
interviews -- to the Chinese cultural revolution. Of course his function
as Chinese artist, as symbolic 'worker' in the west is to tell the story
of the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s in a way that it was the
end of civilization and the true grimace of communism. Hence his
function is to disavow the nation of China today -- within the framework
of the fight of the economical declining nations and conglomerates of
nations (USA, Europe, Japan etc.) against China. Needless to say that
what he does all happens just on the level of symbolism.

Matze