[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

Fri Jun 12 09:17:44 PDT 2020

Yes to your guess.  But instead of basic DNA, I think GPE genetically primary example – FOLLOWING Davidov, Elkonin.

We use epigenetic byway in the following article:

“Creating and Reconstituting Contexts for Educational Interactions, Including a Computer Program” by Peg Griffin, Alexandra Belyaeva, Galina Soldatova, and the Velikhov-Hamburg Collective. 

It’s in “Contexts for Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children’s Development.”  Ellice A. Foreman, Norris Minnick, C. Addison Stone (Eds.) (pp. 120-152). New York: Oxford University Press.

It’s pretty far in – you have to wade through a lot of frogs to get to it -- but I think the example is a clear one about epigenetic byways

Peg

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Hello Peg Griffin

Thank you for this thought-provoking mail. 

I'm guessing that the "epigenetic byway" is continuing the current spontaneous movement and future organisation around  racism, which will not tackle the basic DNA of the pervading culture and institutions of white supremacy? (Sorry, I hadn't come across 'epigenetics' before)

Regards

Tom Richardson

Middlesbrough UK

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 16:15, Peg Griffin, PhD. <Peg.Griffin@att.net <mailto:Peg.Griffin@att.net> > wrote:

Yes everyone suffers, but it is about white supremacy rather than racism.

Other people in other places have other things, maybe other race supremacies to rise against.  

Whether it’s race or not, it’s people with the knees on the necks that must lead and be followed.

Who follows, here, is whoever isn’t a white supremacist.

It is painful and time taking to apprehend what white privilege means in action. It is difficult to persevere in the denial of white privilege in one’s own life. 

It’s a careful distinction – between white supremacy and racism. 

Here and now the reduction to racism deflects us to an “epigenetic byway,” provides room to protect dangerous institutions and practices, to produce misshapen changes.  White supremacists make references to, praise, make symbols of, people who are not white whose jobs or statements or health; it is supposed to be prima facie evidence that they aren’t racist. More long term and subtly, it divides us, hides them, and maligns and degrades us. 

The ties that bind white supremacy and fascism are blatant, as Mike’s references to the late 30’s highlight.

PG

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No, the American Century is over, I believe, even if America can take a leading part in ushering in the new epoch, I think it will be to release the rest of the world from the USA's mania to micromanage everyone else. The pandemic was, I think, the catalyst which brought the issues to the surface which were bubbling away for a long time. And might I venture the opinion that the vast investment in this BLM movement by young "white" people is in large part because cops kill a hell of a lot of white kids as well, and everyone is suffering under the system in which African Americans are victimised.

Andy

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On 9/06/2020 12:11 pm, Martin Packer wrote:

On Jun 8, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org> > wrote:

Even in the depths of degradation and ignominy America can lead, it seems.

This is something worth and worthy of theorizing, isn’t it?! Turns out the World Perezhivanie is not the coronavirus, or at least not the coronavirus alone. It is racism. And the global subject that has just been formed has found its lead in the US. The US Century may not be over after all!

Martin

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