[lbo-talk] [SPAM_ISU] :Re: Pussy Riot Proposed for Luther Prize

[Carrol Cox]

Spectator politics has no room for grasping the possible within a given
context. There is no real left in Russia at the present though, as in the
U.S. in the '80s, there are doubtless many individual leftists. In such a
context random acts of symbolic resistance keep up human courage.  Mere
spectators, like Joanna & Joseph, can apparently exercise a merely aesthetic
judgment of politics.

Carrol


> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Joseph Catron
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 5:50 AM
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> Subject: [SPAM_ISU] :Re: [lbo-talk] Pussy Riot Proposed for Luther Prize
> 
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> The "West" can't even begin to understand their action.  The Russian
State,
> > today just as it traditionally has been, rests on the unity of the Knout
> > and the Crucifix. To use the Cathedral as setting for a prayer to the
> > Virgin for the liberation of Russia from Putin illuminated and denounced
> > that alliance in the most effective way possible!
> >
> 
> "[I]lluminated" to whom? I'm no expert on Russian affairs, but don't think
> it's exactly a secret that the ROC is more popular there, and hence more
> politically influential, than, say, the Church of Denmark is in its
country.
> 
> As for "the most effective way possible," I guess it all depends on the
> goal. If their purpose was to piss off the overwhelming majority of their
> society, while titillating a few liberals abroad, then mission
accomplished.
> 
> http://www.levada.ru/31-07-2012/rossiyane-o-dele-pussy-riot
> 
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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