More importantly, am I enough ahead of the trend to claim extra indie cool points? Via Jodi and Barry, news of a new Mao collection introduced by man about town Mr S Zizek. I found the table of contents here, and what I believe is Zizek’s introduction (can anyone confirm or deny?) here.
The collection contains:
A single spark can start a prairie fire
Oppose book worship
On practice : on the relation between knowledge and practice, between knowing and doing
On contradiction
Combat liberalism
The Chinese people cannot be cowed by the atom bomb
US imperialism is a paper tiger
Concerning Stalin’s economic problems of socialism in the USSR
Critique of Stalin’s economic problems of socialism in the USSR
On the correct handling of contradictions among the people
Where do correct ideas come from?
Talk on questions of philosophy
All of these are online here. Which is not to say don’t buy the book. By all means, do, especially if it means discussing this stuff w/ me. Which reminds me, I still gotta make a post on On Contradiction (I didn’t have much of a response to it, actually, so really no one should buy this book just in order to discuss it with me as I might fail to follow through).
I don’t know why, but this reminded me, Angela has a new piece up at Mute, check it out:
http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Social-SoftWar
Comment by Nate — February 23, 2007 @ 5:10 am
that is the introduction…
SZ seems to be putting out a collection of writings by revolutionary leaders, specifically, people that he sees as trandscending social ‘meta-rules’. I know a similar collection (with intro by SZ) on Robspierre is out and I suspect that there maybe one on John Brown and apparently there are more…
I think the series is meant to have intros by others as well but, as was said SZ is the man about town…
anyhoo would be interested to read stuff about Mao and peoples response to Zizek’s intro as this collection was my first encounter with Mao.
Comment by kernal.corn — February 23, 2007 @ 6:51 am
This made me think of Martin Glaberman’s pamphlet, “Mao as Dialectician”. I have a copy of it and have sometimes thought about putting it on the STO archive page simply because it was an influential pamphlet to STO, but have not yet done so. I may just put it up on the D&HHP blog. This would be a good discussion piece.
Comment by Krisna Best — February 24, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
That’d be awesome. I’ve skimmed that at a friend’s once when I visited, but I didn’t have time to read it closely.
Comment by Nate — February 25, 2007 @ 12:48 am