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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:05:03 -0400 Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> writes: > > > http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100813/REVIEW/7081 29986/1008 > The Chinese revolution's influence on French thinking > > The Wind from the East examines the effect on the Chinese Cultural > Revolution on French political and philosophical discourse, writes > Scott > McLemee > > The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural > Revolution, > and the Legacy of the 1960s > Richard Wolin > Princeton University Press > Dh129 > > > >For several years, > the > seminal journal Cahiers du Cinéma turned itself into a Maoist > collective, running film clubs as part of its ideological struggle > against Hollywood. This would seem to merit at least a mention, but > > there is none. Jean-Luc Godard is present solely for La chinoise > (1967), > his satirical film about a Maoist collective holed up in a bourgeois > > apartment in Paris. None of the work he directed following his own > surrender to Mao Thought is discussed at all. > > These omissions may not be deliberate, but they are more than > oversights. They do not quite fit the story told in The Wind from > the > East one in which the Maoists, pursuing an extremist course to > destroy > bourgeois society, actually improved it a bit, in spite of > themselves. > > Damned revisionists! They need to be denounced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0yXXjJuyPE Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ____________________________________________________________ My Credit Scores- Free Click Here to See Your Credit Report and 3 FREE Credit Scores Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4c669dcf1bd4e1109ecm03vuc ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
