From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 20:09:54 EDT
Hi Phil: Prompted by your last post, I visited Lenin's Tomb today. Lenin (recall the thread from this time last year) identifies himself as an "undead contributor". Other Leninists include 'bat020', 'Meaders', Mark Elf, China and 'Bionoc'. Somehow I think it's fitting that Lenin is from Northern Ireland. Lenin's taste in fiction, comedy, political theory, philosophy, and history has evolved over the years (see below). Curiously, instead of re- reading Hegel's _Science of Logic_ he now appreciates Zizek and Badiou. In solidarity, Jerry PS: I remember reading a story in _Dissent_ decades ago which claimed that Lenin's body wasn't buried in Lenin's tomb. I think it was a Social Democratic urban myth, though. Even if untrue it was an imaginative and gory tale, though, PPS: on an unrelated note (except insofar as it also involves a "where are they now?" kind of question), former subscribers to the old marxism list (no relation to marxmail) may remember a high school student named Charlotte Kates. Well, I met Charlotte a number of times in the last year and am happy to report that she is still politically active (nowadays, most especially, in Al Awda -- the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition) and is now -- having graduated from Rutgers Law School and passed the bar exam -- a practicing attorney. >>>>>>>>>>>>> Favourite novelists, poets, playwrights etc: Oscar Wilde; Ken Kesey; Christopher Fowler; Will Self; David Hare; Tony Kushner; John Guare; Stephen Adly Guirgis; Edward Bond; Dario Fo; Stephen Poliakoff; Stephen Fry; Gore Vidal; Philip Roth; Joe Orton; Bret Easton Ellis; EM Forster; Joseph Heller; Salman Rushdie; F Scott Fitzgerald; Dorothy Parker; Irvine Welsh; Andre Gide; Jane Austen; Graham Greene. Favourite comedians: Bill Hicks; Woody Allen; Chris Morris; Chris Rock; Eddie Murphy; Lenny Bruce; Mort Sahl; Barry Humphries; Jack Dee; Rob Newman; David Cross; Mark Steel; Mark Thomas. Favourite political/social/philosphical/literary/historical theorists: Slavoj Zizek; Ellen Meiksins Wood; Robert Brenner; Benno Teschke; Franco Moretti; Alain Badiou; Ernesto Laclau; Anthony Giddens (circa 1980s); Alex Callinicos; Terry Eagleton; David Harvey; Foucault; Perry Anderson; Samir Amin; Jaqueline Rose; bell hooks; Gramsci; Gregory Elliot; Alistair MacIntyre; Martti Koskenniemi; Edward Said; Partha Chatterjee; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Peter Gowan; Noam Chomsky; Aime Cesaire. Favourite historians: Eric Hobsbawm; Christopher Hill; Robin Blackburn; Fernand Braudel; James Holstun; Hanna Batatu; Neil Davidson; Ian Kershaw; Moshe Lewin; Ilan Pappe; Avi Shlaim; David Hirst; George Rude; Dilip Hiro; Howard Zinn; Nora Carlin; EP Thompson; Norman Finkelstein; Charles Tripp; Manning Marable. <<<<<<<<<<<<<
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