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> > > Cordescu: > > Zealot certainly took away my appetite to revisit Jesus Christ Superstar. I > had to stay home and study my Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and all the other > dreary horrors of the "revolutionary" horde that bored the piss out of my > childhood. Even Che Guevara, a proven ideological monster, started looking > good next to this Jesus, to speak only about their looks. Che still looks > good on his youth poster, but Jesus, who didn't photograph so well on the > shroud of Turin , doesn't even look human when Aslan's done with him. This snippet is largely superficial nonsense, and the review, as a whole, reeks of the pervasive cynicism of so many in post-Soviet society as described by Gáspár Miklós Tamás: "Still, after all this, when a few of us have announced our allegiance — which, of course, includes a repudiation of “real socialism” of all stripes — our audiences weren’t on the whole upset, but rather incredulous! Not so much for the apparent reason of the folly of joining the defeated (I, for one, feel defeated in my former avatar of an Old Whig, but certainly not as a revolutionary socialist) or of confessing to a belief compromised by the terrible things done in its name, but for the mere implausibility of having social and political principles of any kind at all!" Full: http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-left-and-marxism-in-eastern-europe For what it's worth, growing up in the nerve-center of Reaganomics, the death-throes of organized labor, the ascendency of the Christian Right, action movie allegories of the battle against The Evil Empire, and The War on Drugs/Terror (poor people) "bored the piss out of my childhood." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
