[lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism"

[Chris Doss]

I'm kind of curious as to how much somebody outside the USSR who didn't know any of the languages spoken in the USSR (as far as I know) could actually know anything about the culture of the USSR. Nu Pogodi? Mark Bernes? Samtsvety? Vinni Pukh? Alla Pugacheva? Not even during Stalin himself could Soviet culture simply be reduced to Socialist Realism.

----- Original Message ----
From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>
  My readings
of him are limited (I did just learn how to read sometime in the mid-90s),
but I did skim some of his critiques of the "culture" of Stalinist Russia as
embodied by socialist realist art.