Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/15DOPE.html?0315ci
>
> The best part of the article appears to me to be the following:
>
> ***** One player, Matthew Cook, said he had become obsessed with
> DopeWars while he was a graduate student at the Marshall School of
> Business at the University of Southern California. He said the game
> reflected lessons taught in his classes, including market testing,
> risk management, inventory control and money management. And of
> course, in the twilight of the dot-com age, it plays to the interest
> in sudden riches as players watch the price of drugs skyrocket.
>
> "It's like your company I.P.O.'s at five times what you expected it
> to," he said. (Mr. Cook's own company, an Internet start-up,
> recently went under.) *****
>
> Has anyone read _Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game: True
> Confessions of a Marxist Businessman_ by Bertell Ollman? It's out of
> print now, I think.
>
> "Class Struggle was a 1970s board game, conceived as a socialist
> alternative to Monopoly, in which players were randomly assigned to
> different classes and moved around the board forming cross-class
> alliances, engaging in struggle, and heading for one of two mutually
> exclusive destinations: Socialism or Barbarism. The box sported a
> rather good photo-montage of Karl Marx arm-wrestling Nelson
> Rockefeller. Improbably enough, a photograph exists of Helmut Kohl
> at the 1980 Frankfurt Book Fair holding a boxed set of Klassenkampf,
> the German edition of the game" (at
> <http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/dictionary/dict_c1.shtml>).
>
> "Dr Ollman, of New York University, spent seven years working out
> 'Class Struggle'. It bears a superficial resemblance to 'Monopoly'
> -- 'another political game', he says -- with players throwing dice
> and chasing each other round the board. You can be a Worker (with a
> hammer symbol), a Capitalist (with a top hat) or a member of the
> minor classes, such as Farmer, Student or Small Businessman. Rule
> One states that 'Class Struggle' can be played by two to six players;
> Rule Two adds, though, that the real players are classes, not
> individuals; Rule Three stresses that only the Workers or the
> Capitalists can win. That's life, says Dr Ollman" (at
> <http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/johnnymoped/isthisthereallife/isthisthereallife_theendofthespectacle_page2.html>).
>
> Visit "Bertel Ollman: Communism Now":
> <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/di001.htm>.
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Subject: Re: Edward Said on Freud, Zionism, and Vienna
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There is little to add to Edward Said's eloquent statement, except to comment on the following:
> (Incidentally, it should be noted that Freud was an early
> anti-Zionist but later modified his view when Nazi persecutions of
> European Jews made a Jewish state seem like a possible solution to
> widespread and lethal anti-Semitism. But I believe that his position
> vis-à-vis Zionism was always an ambivalent one.)
In the thirties Freud corresponded with the German Jewish writer Arnold Zweig, who had gone to Palestine and become a Zionist. Zweig wrote and solicited his view on Zionism, which Freud said he had come to support, as a result of the rise of Nazism. But he said that Zionism was supportable because it was an essentially secular movement. Clearly Freud would have opposed the present reality of a supposedly "modern" state accepting as normal the participation in governance of an openly racist religious tendency.
Interestingly, Zweig himself became disillusioned with Israel. In the fifties he left and became a citizen and significant cultural figure in the German Democratic Republic.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema