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Andrei Zhdanov on American Culture
By: Long Knives 88 Date: January 19, 2016, 2:21 pm
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Κομμάτια
από 3 ομιλίες
μεταξύ 1947 και
1948:
"...The U.S.A. has no poets, no painters, no architects or
composers of world stature. Americanization is a kind of
kitschification that gives every cultural value an American
stamp, turning a mature language into slang, the waltz into
jazz, a work of literature into a crime story..."
"...Cities such as Μοscow and Leningrad contain more
eternal manifestations of culture than the entire North American
continent. What musicians do the English have to compare with
Glinka or Tchaikovsky, and what artists can the Americans
present to match Ilya Repin? They talk of human culture. We have
it, and remain today its guardians, wardens, and protectors..."
"...We do not wish to deny this culture of nothingness its right
to exist. It can even, rightly used, be good, just as it is
sometimes a pleasure to do nothing. Should a Soviet soldier be
presented with a portable record player and jazz records by an
American soldier, he does not smash them against the wall.
Instead, he takes them along and thinks he has a great treasure.
We don’t want to suggest excessive cultural disaster here. There
are times when he wants a vacation from himself, from us, from
the whole world. He needs to relax, and certainly does not wish
to ponder intellectual matters. Nothing is better suited to take
him out of the normal world than the complete nonsense of this
hot music, this cacophony of animal howls, wild instruments, and
foot-stomping lust. It takes him away from human concerns back
to the depths of pre-human apedom, returning him to the time
when people did not need to think because there was no past and
no future. Its effect is like that of alcohol, which turns
normally rational men into shouting, destructive children. That
can sometimes be good for serious and intelligent men. And the
soldier certainly does not forget his Soviet mission, nor does
he lose his character or honor when he occasionally spends an
hour relaxing to entertaining music. He is immune to the danger
of confusing this rhythmic pig grunting with good music, much
less art or culture. It cannot meet his higher standards.
Others, however, are not as immune. That is what those who deny
any appeal of Americanism forget.
Certainly there is no danger that our young boys and girls will
fall into sexual frenzy while listening to some lout blowing on
a saxophone. One can introduce them to the high priests of the
American jitterbug with no worries at all. At most they will
laugh...
...We sometimes fail to see that there are young people in
Europe today - even in the new People's democracies - who not
only do not stand within the camp of democracy and
anti-imperialism, but even mock or scorn it. Many of us simply
cannot understand how there can be a mass meeting at a Polish
university protesting the Red Army soldiers who are risking
their lives for the freedom and security of Poland.
These young men surely are not consciously supporting the plans
of Truman. They are mostly apolitical. Those who think
politically and act from conviction demonstrate it through their
actions. The others have followed the comfortable path that
leads from political thinking to Americanism.
That is the political danger of Americanism. It leads those who
fall prey to it away from political thinking, away from
responsibility, even to their class, away from decency, even
from national decency.
The American lad may use fine phrases to say that the Communist
is his political enemy. In reality, however, he fights a man who
makes uncomfortable and difficult demands on him, the man who
recognizes the fate of the class as his fate, who respects the
woman, who wants to be a model, who always acts as if the eyes
of the nation are upon him. The American lad feels his “freedom”
restricted by such behavior. He wants to keep the hot music
spinning on the record player, not be reminded that he must work
as well as relax, that he must not only enjoy, but also honor
the dignity of his people.
That is neither comfortable nor pleasant. It is pleasant to talk
slang and enjoy a loose moral life with those of like mind.
Americanism has its delights, and he who is captivated by them
not only sticks his head in the sand, he also gets some
pleasure. It is nice to be able to dismiss all criticism of a
too hearty enjoyment of life with the claim that one is
defending human rights against Communism...
...Americanism is a splendid method of depoliticization. The
imperialists have used jazz and movies, magazines and smut,
gangsterism and free love, and every perverse desire, to keep
the American people so distracted that they pay no attention to
their own fate. Even in politics, they are no longer influenced
by the head, only by what is under the belt.
The imperialists would not be imperialists if they did not want
to apply such tested methods to the entire world. Nearly every
nation in the world faced or is facing the need to combat
Americanism, a generally pleasant retreat to a barbaric lack of
culture.
The logical consequences of Americanism will help the world
combat it. The fact that 60% of American crimes are committed by
children 13 years old and under and that rapes increased
three-fold between 1946 and 1947 proves that Americanism has
reached its limits. It will provoke a counter-movement that can
only be political.
Americanism is not merely a moral-cultural form of degeneration,
nor can it be combated by nonpolitical means. It has already
been defeated when one digs it up by its roots and sees there
plainly the words capitalism and imperialism...”
#Post#: 20404--------------------------------------------------
Re: Andrei Zhdanov on American Culture
By: mistermax Date: January 19, 2016, 2:26 pm
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[quote author=Long Knives 88 link=topic=2263.msg20402#msg20402
date=1453234916]
Κομμάτια
από 3 ομιλίες
μεταξύ 1947 και
1948:
"...The U.S.A. has no poets, no painters, no architects or
composers of world stature. Americanization is a kind of
kitschification that gives every cultural value an American
stamp, turning a mature language into slang, the waltz into
jazz, a work of literature into a crime story..."
[/quote]
το λένε
συχνά τα
σταλίνια
αυτό. Οποτε
τους ρωτήσω
για την
κουλτουρα
της εσσδ,
ποιητές,
σκηνοθέτες,
μουσικούς
κτλ, μουγκα
στην
στρούγκα.
#Post#: 20407--------------------------------------------------
Re: Andrei Zhdanov on American Culture
By: Long Knives 88 Date: January 19, 2016, 2:35 pm
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[quote author=mistermax link=topic=2263.msg20404#msg20404
date=1453235189]
το λένε
συχνά τα
σταλίνια
αυτό. Οποτε
τους ρωτήσω
για την
κουλτουρα
της εσσδ,
ποιητές,
σκηνοθέτες,
μουσικούς
κτλ, μουγκα
στην
στρούγκα.
[/quote]
και στην
αποκάτω
ακριβώς
παράγραφο
αναφέρει 3
τσαρικούς
(Γκλίνκα,
Τσαϊκόφσκι,
Ρέπιν) σαν
"δικούς μας".
Φυσικά το
"δικοί μας"
πάει στο ότι
είναι Ρώσοι,
όχι ότι
είναι
κομμουνιστ^
1;ς.
Ο
εθνικιστής
Ζντάνοφ
γούσταρε
τους
παλιούς,
προ-επαναστ	
45;τικούς
Ρώσους
καλλιτέχνε`
2;,
αλλά
λογόκρινε
συνεχώς
τους
κομμουνιστ^
1;ς
Προκόφιεφ,
Αϊζενστάιν,
Σοστακόβιτ`
2;
κλπ.
Γενικά οι
ομιλίες του
Ζντάνοφ τα
χρόνια 1947-48
έχουν
καθαρά
εθνικό
χαρακτήρα "η
δική μας
κουλτούρα
(ρώσικη)
είναι
καλύτερη
από την
αμερικάνικ_
1;"
και από
κοντά "η δική
μας
κουλτούρα
(εργατική)
είναι
καλύτερα
από την
αστική".
Προλεταρια_
4;ός
εθνικισμός
FTW.
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