Ludic vs. Ludicrous Leninism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, in developing ludic Leninism, one has to watch out for ludicrous 
Leninism.

CB

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Ooops, should have read Lou's post too, before clicking my reply to
Carroll's post.
    Thank you, Lou for the info.
                                          Michael Pugliese
----- Original Message -----
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: ludic Leninism


> >       Reminded me of this book by a pomo Lacanian Marxist-Feminist,
"Ludic
> >Feminism and After (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender) by Teresa
L.
> >Ebert. Think it has a blurb from  Judith Butler.
> >      Also the cyber-Leninism site. Haven't visited that one in a while,
do
> >these comrades have truck with Lacan too?
> >                                 Michael Pugliese
>
> I am surprised, but maybe not all that surprised, by Butler log-rolling
for
> Ebert. Ebert is part of a group of professors in upstate NY who have made
a
> career out of bashing postmodernists. They've just launched a new journal
> called "Transformation", which is advertised in the latest MR. Along with
> an article by Ebert, there are pieces by her 2 main co-thinkers, Donald
> Morton and Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, who is Mr. Ebert. It is focused on
> Butler-type issues (Queer Theory, Gender), but purportedly is built on
> four-square Marxist foundations. Doug was a big fan of Ebert until the
> scales dropped from his eyes and discovered pomo.
>
> Ebert and company organized an intervention of a cult of graduate students
> on the old Marxism list. They had been producing a really frantic and
> unreadable magazine called "Radical Orange", since it was based at
Syracuse
> University (the school's colors.)
>
> Even though Doug was friendly to Ebert's writings at the time, this did
not
> prevent them from flaming him as a postmodernist in embryo. Who knows,
> maybe they were smarter than I gave them credit for. I found them one of
> the most truly nutty groups I ever ran into in cyberspace, with perhaps
the
> exception of Maoist Internationalist Movement, whose member only
identified
> himself as Pat number #7. (Might have been Pat number #8).
>
> I

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