A new piece over at Political Theology on Lenin’s exegesis of the parable of the tares and wheat from Matthew 13: 24-30. And yes, it is a streamlined snippet from Lenin and Theology.
27 November, 2011
Lenin on the parables
Posted by stalinsmoustache under Another world is possible, Bible, Lenin | Tags: parables, reading Lenin, tares and wheat |[15] Comments
28 November, 2011 at 1:27 am
I find the first couple of comments over there to have unique insight as well.
28 November, 2011 at 7:41 am
Which ones exactly? In Lenin’s text?
29 November, 2011 at 5:28 am
It’s time for you to move beyond the medieval media of the printed word, Comrade Boar. Think satellite TV! Super Girl, China’s version of Pop Idol, is to be dropped from television schedules in spite of attracting 400m viewers at its peak, following government pressure on a programme that some officials saw as subversive because the audience voting too closely represented Western-style democracy. Li Hao, deputy editor and spokesman of Hunan Satellite TV, which broadcast the show, was quoted as saying the changes were under disciplinary measures by the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television, and the broadcaster would soon launch new programming on morals, security and housework instead.
That “morals, security and housework” show could be Stalin’s Moustache TV, man! Some reading from the scriptures, some heart-warming and morally-uplifting selections from the diaries of great revolutionaries, some advice on how to fix a bike and make your own furniture, some frank discussion of the digestive system, close on some inoffensive middle of the road rock like Nick Cave singing about Jesus and PJ Harvey, or Jethro Tull.
Make an audition tape and send it to your mates at Fudan!
29 November, 2011 at 6:44 am
That is heart-warming news from China. After witnessing again the sheer perversity of US life, noting the killings that happened on Black Friday – for a pair of fucking nikes – and having visited Nike Town, I reckon anything owuld be better than that, dude.
29 November, 2011 at 6:56 am
This could be an amusing segment of your tv show, “the sheer perversity of US life in inferior in most respects to a life of morals built upon a firm foundation of security and housework”. Readers would be invited to submit amusingly perverse youtube clips that are not currently blocked by the peoples’ guardians.
29 November, 2011 at 7:03 am
The first episode could be filmed at NikeTown Wuhan to illustrate its superiority in all respects to the perverse NikeTowns in Tuscaloosa, East Ham and Invercargill.
29 November, 2011 at 7:19 am
Actually, the occasional shooting of a capitalist would be more interesting, or at least (given that I’m a softy) a reality show on how they are daring in Australia’s Siberia.
29 November, 2011 at 7:21 am
Interesting slip, that one: daring for faring. Both apply. As for TV, it should simply be scrapped, especially the ABC. Actually, all forms of the bourgie ABC – the ‘state-run’ media – should be dumped.
29 November, 2011 at 8:05 am
Welcome to Stalin’s Moustache TV, live from NikeTown Wuhan! Stay tuned as we execute the owners and customers of NikeTown Wuhan!
29 November, 2011 at 8:17 am
No, no, a reality show in Antarctica, where they would join Murdoch et al.
29 November, 2011 at 8:08 am
P.S. the revolution begins! The revolution begins!
29 November, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Within the bourgeois state? Seriously …
29 November, 2011 at 8:17 am
And since when does one trust a source like the FT on China, or any dodgy operator.
29 November, 2011 at 8:43 am
Apologies, Reverend. I have checked the scriptures, and in Volume 19 of the Collected Works of Lenin, in a letter to Kamenev dated May 7 1920, The Desire of Man makes clear that it is not like this at all. There is no “Super Girl” and NikeTown Wuhan is actually a small seminary staffed by PLA veterans of the Battle of Pork Chop. I am in error.
29 November, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Apology accepted. You are forgiven, although you neglected to refer to Stalin’s Collected Works – admittedly less weighty than Lenin’s, but hey, ghost writers can do only so much.