Christian love

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

Very good point. As I said before, Christianity is hardly the only
social/ideological phenomenon which concepts of sado-masochism can illuminate.
Someone once pointed out that there is a parallel to the patriarchal monotheism
of which Christianity is an example, in what may be called the "patriarchal
atheism" of Stalinism. And as Stalinism retreated farther and farther from the
heady libertinism of the revolutionary period it also came more and more to
foster male dominance. It's not a new insight to see parallels between
Christianity (or, to be entirely fair, some Christianities) and Stalinism. In
both we see the logic of accumulation at work.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Michael Pugliese wrote:


> That appears to be a universal belief fostered under capitalism: "no
> pain, no gain."
>
> Yoshie
>
>    Tell that to Alexei Stakhanov...
> Aleksei Stakhanov overfulfills the norm by 14 times in ...
> www.pitt.edu/~mmbst35/prewar.htm
> In 1935, A productivist campaign was organised In the USSR around a miner
> named Alexei
> Stakhanov. Indeed he had broken down 102 tons of coal in 6 hours, ie 4 ...
> www.perso.wanadoo.fr/lafayette/anglais/a_stakhnov.htm
> Aleksei Grigor'evich Stakhanov. Copyright 1998 by Hugo S. Cunningham.
> First posted 980829. Last minor change 001227. ...
> www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/rus/staxan.html
> Deineka, Stakhanov Workers, 1936-1937, USSR
> http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/art-history/werckmeister/May_6_1999/1021.jpg
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=Alexei+Stakhanov&spell=1
> Michael Pugliese, slacker...
> P.S. LOL!
> http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2001/05-23-01.shtml
> United States > Energy Policy
> Stakhanov — Made in U.S.A.   By Stephan Richter
>
> When George W. Bush took office as the 43rd President of the United States,
> very few people would have suspected that, before long, the former Texas
> governor would display communist leanings in his economic philosophy. And
> yet, that is pretty much what his pro-production energy proposals lead us to
> conclude now. Stephan Richter, publisher of The Globalist, explains.