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

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Althusser's writings were circa late 1950s.  I don't know a ton about state
art in the 1930s-60s but I do know of Nikita Khrushchev's famous disdain for
the abstract and the dominate thinking in the CPs in the 50s.  Althusser's
thinking on abstract art *were* way out of step with others in the milieu
of official Communism during this time.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> These were all state-sponsored:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqdiEUp6s4E
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu025oeghFI
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAEvR8C1ns
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wh58PWKRc
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa0jBXizpHM&feature=related
>
> Samotsvety clearly had more in common with ABBA than with Socialist
> Realism.
>
>
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> ----- 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"
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> "culture" meaning state sponsored arts. I don't throw around my scare
> quotes for no reason.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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