[lbo-talk] Leninists find Jesus

[Alan Rudy]

My sense is that this isn't getting us anywhere.
To my mind, what's telling about the class being offered is that its
organized around an anthropological system that appears to mediate
ecological and personal phenomena with culture... whereas most cranky left
political economists (a phrase in a post that led a friend to suggest I hop
on board here) tend to focus on the ways productive activity (labor) -
broadly defined - mediates ecological and cultural conditions.
Given recent exchanges around green social democracy on the list, it seems
to me that the class - whatever its limits or contradictions - is being
organized so as to address just exactly the ecological, personal and
communal conditions/arenas many see as the foundation concerns of critical
political ecology (most obviously, nodding to my institutional
co-affiliation with JG, as O'Connor theorized them two decades ago).
Obviously, what's missing in the class is the political economic
situatedness of contemporary (and historical) conversations about the
dynamic relationships between our natures, labors and cultures.
For myself, it has always seemed that any sort of viable green social
democracy (or subsequent step) is going to have to address questions of the
kinds of ecologies, persons and cultures we want to produce and what that
means for political ecology.
Here's hopin' that conversation can be reasonably engaged.

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Alan P. Rudy
Visiting Associate Professor
Dept. Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Central Michigan University
124 Anspach Hall
Mt Pleasant, MI 48858
517-881-6319

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:


>
> Look man. The average age of Leninists seems to be over 60, and they appear
> to be almost exclusively grumpy, embittered men.
>
> Christians, however, count among their number a significant amount of
> WOMEN!!! some of them rather hawt. Sometimes, unlike the aforementioned
> Leninists, they actually have sex! In fact, I have had sex with many
> Christians, and zero Leninists.
>
> My choice is clear.
>
> Seriously, you live in a Christianity-suffused society, and I don't.
> Whereas I do live in a society with statues of Lenin all over the place.
> Difference of vuepoints.
>
> --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok. Given a choice between hanging and a firing squad,
> > which would you take?
> >
> > Doug
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