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

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 22 14:53:18 PST 2010


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 with Socialist Realism.

----- Original Message ---- From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> To: "lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 1:29:35 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] On Althusser and socialist "realism"

"culture" meaning state sponsored arts. I don't throw around my scare quotes for no reason.

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On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 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.
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> ----- 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.
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