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3376 [lbo-talk] Althusser, NLR and the meaning of 'Stalinism' -- rank: 156

'Althusser saw his work as an attack on Stalinism with the PCF and associated 'marxist humanism' ' This doesn't quite get the measure of Althusser's relation to the PCF leadership. On a largely philosophical plain he did challenge the extant party philosophy which did claim to be 'marxist humanist ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Feb 22 01:16:39 PST 2010

3377 [lbo-talk] Althusser, NLR and the meaning of 'Stalinism' -- rank: 156

... silence pure and simple, or by imputing concentrations camps to Stalin's "humanism" - whereby Althusser attained the distinction of acting more ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Feb 22 12:10:12 PST 2010

3378 [lbo-talk] Althusser, NLR and the meaning of 'Stalinism' -- rank: 156

Well Foucault had long bailed out of the PCF (by the early 1950s) and yet he was a major proponent of the "death of man" and of antihumanism. Levi-Strauss's work, could and was, given an antihumanist interpretation too. In the 1960s and 1970s, that sort of thing became quite ...

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Author:	farmelantj at juno.com
Date:	Mon Feb 22 12:40:14 PST 2010

3379 [lbo-talk] Althusser, NLR and the meaning of 'Stalinism' -- rank: 156

... PM, Chris Doss wrote: > > (Technically speaking, I'm not sure Stalin actually had > concentration camps.) Technically speaking, Auschwitz was a labor ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Feb 22 13:57:21 PST 2010

3380 [lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism" -- rank: 156

... Mark Bernes? Samtsvety? Vinni Pukh? Alla Pugacheva? Not even during Stalin himself could Soviet culture simply be reduced to Socialist Realism ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Feb 22 14:25:13 PST 2010

3381 [lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism" -- rank: 156

... Mark Bernes? Samtsvety? Vinni Pukh? Alla Pugacheva? Not even > during Stalin himself could Soviet culture simply be reduced to > Socialist Realism ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Mon Feb 22 14:29:35 PST 2010

3382 [lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism" -- rank: 156

These were all state-sponsored: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqdiEUp6s4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu025oeghFI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAEvR8C1ns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wh58PWKRc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa0jBXizpHM&feature=related Samotsvety clearly had more in common with ABBA than ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Feb 22 14:53:18 PST 2010

3383 [lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism" -- rank: 156

Althusser's writings were circa late 1950s. I don't know a ton about state art in the 1930s-60s but I do know of Nikita Khrushchev's famous disdain for the abstract and the dominate thinking in the CPs in the 50s. Althusser's thinking on abstract art *were* way ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Mon Feb 22 15:02:24 PST 2010

3384 [lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism" -- rank: 156

... if they became recidivists and ever again wrote music that Stalin couldn't whistle and Zhdanov couldn't hum. Nobody ever ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Feb 22 19:24:39 PST 2010

3385 James Farrell and James Cain (was Re: Michael Moore Responds) -- rank: 156

... SWP, led by Max Schachtman, which, >due to the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the invasion of Finland, wished to read the ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sat May 30 07:45:01 PDT 1998

3386 [lbo-talk] Pat Robertson outdoes himself -- rank: 156

A History of Slander A new book reveals what 18th-century French libelers and contemporary journalists have in common. By Eve Ottenberg In These Times January 11, 2010 http://www.inthesetimes.org/article/5310/a_history_of_slander When a member of the Bush administration leaked to columnist Robert Novak that ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Jan 15 05:49:38 PST 2010

3387 [lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead -- rank: 156

... communist "classics," or books written by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. (For a more complete definition of communist "classics," see Bibliography ...

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Author:	Percival Myers
Date:	Mon Jan 25 15:35:06 PST 2010

3388 [lbo-talk] McLemee: short sweet intellectual history of Western Marxism in France -- rank: 156

... too, was barbarous. Workers were exploited and had no power. Stalin's party had assumed the role that capitalists would normally ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jan 27 02:47:57 PST 2010

3389 Fwd: Start With Gore When Blame Game Begins -- rank: 156

Boston Globe - November 5, 2000 Start With Gore When Blame Game Begins by Robert Kuttner AL GORE MAY YET prevail, just as the Boston Red Sox may yet win next year's World Series. But don't hold your breath. And the recriminations have already begun. Did Gore run too populist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 09:02:07 PST 2000

3390 [lbo-talk] Zinn again.. -- rank: 156

Howard Zinn's 'Je Ne Suis Pas Marxiste' The following is reprinted from The Zinn Reader (1997, Seven Stories Press, pp 574-578) and with the permission of the author. http://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2006/09/howard-zinns-je-ne-suis-pas-marxiste.html For a long time I thought that ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sat Jan 30 20:11:26 PST 2010