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...@Liz : "Which party do you belong to?" <br /><br />I'm a member of Worker-comunist Initiative (http://www.communisme-ouvrier.info/), which is inspired by the iranian marxist Mansoor Hekmat (http://www.m-hekmat.com/). So, yes, i'm a pure style materialist. It don't mean I underestimate the romantic background of Marx and the obvious links of early communism with 18th and 19th mystic thoughts.Nicolas Dessauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03010015806129652185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798798603664853429.post-34888703004667214812011-02-01T00:07:49.960+01:002011-02-01T00:07:49.960+01:00PS & londonhobgoblin's book about Helen Mc...PS & londonhobgoblin's book about Helen McFarlane sounds fascinating - should've provided us a link right to it!!Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393426834303710243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798798603664853429.post-57463606856078045872011-02-01T00:02:12.982+01:002011-02-01T00:02:12.982+01:00..what they were, or in Christian times, where suc.....what they were, or in Christian times, where such non-biblical things would come from. Personally I think they're a race separate to humans, like most things in mythology. They inhabit (mostly) other, intersecting dimensions. <br /><br />As for a gnoll: never heard of em; now I've got to look the bloody things up! D&D players specialise in the most obscure critters! Why can't you all want to play centaurs, or something?!<br /><br />Yeah so like I said: some people associated fairies with death - or even hell! (Tam Lin, anyone?)<br /><br />But in Nordic mythology they're divided into licht- and svart-alfar: light and dark elves. This has no bearing on the colour of their skin.<br /><br />Hobgoblins are a Scottish term/concept: hence their use, no doubt, by Miss McFarlane? (Also see George McDonald's c19th Goblin books.)<br /><br />Yeah the Scots had loads of goblin folktales: Billy wotsisname, Bragg, was it!?! Billy something anyway, I'm not a Scot.<br /><br />But this looks like my kind of site! I shall subscribe! Unite, and unite, and let us all unite!!Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393426834303710243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798798603664853429.post-37273483870535133892011-01-31T23:40:34.108+01:002011-01-31T23:40:34.108+01:00Hello mate! (Or should that be 'comrade'? ...Hello mate! (Or should that be 'comrade'? I must say I ain't never heard of a D&D-influenced communist before - outside of China Mieville that is! Which party do you belong to? I've had to settle for the broad church of Labour because I know the commies an trots an socialist workers won't take you unless you profess absolute Dawkins-style "rationalism"; and that won't do for me; and I'm not prepared to lie.<br /><br />This site makes a refreshing change! Bet u don't believe in the "spirit world" though. Be interesting to see how right my supposition is..)<br /><br />Yeah - this idea of trolls being undead. I must tell you I know more than a thing or two abt Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore too: and trolls ain't ghosts or vampires: aka "undead". Now *draugar* are; they're mentioned in the sagas. You'd be right in thinking that the fairy folk are sometimes identified with dead folks (or the souls of dead unbaptized children) in British and also Germanic folklore: see Grimms Sagen. This is probably bcos people didn't knowLizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393426834303710243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798798603664853429.post-43286840372711743082010-09-24T17:58:53.509+02:002010-09-24T17:58:53.509+02:00FROM DAVID BLACK>
In my book, 'Helen Macfar...FROM DAVID BLACK><br />In my book, 'Helen Macfarlane,A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-19th Century England' (Lexington 2004) I compare two translations of the opening sentence of the Communist Manifesto ("Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa - des Gespenst des Kommunismus"). In the Engels and Mooore translation of 1888 this is rendered as "A spectre is haunting Europe. The spectre of Communism." Helen Macfarlane's translation of the opening sentence is the more exotic:<br />"A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are haunted by a ghost. The ghost of Communism."<br />"Macfarlane tries to give 'Ein Gespenst' a double meaning. It is not just the ghostly apparition that haunts the castles of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet, foretelling doom and retribution for the incumbents. It is also the scary sprite that country folks tell their children lurks in the woods, in order to discourage them from wandering off on their own. "<br /><br />More recently in a commentary on my book in ‘Yoshimoto Taka’aki, <br />Communal Illusion, and the Japanese New Left’ Manuel Yang writes: <br /><br />"Indeed hobgoblins, which belong to the historical imaginary of the <br />Scottish fairyland, are creatures that inhabit the daily world of <br />peasant communing. This world had ready access to demotic curses, often expressed in such fairytales and premised on customary laws that were intended to protect traditional popular rights from the cupidity of self-interest, the central tenet of bourgeois rationality. Whose bloody acts of exorcism took the form of enclosures, privatization, <br />imperialism."<br /><br />Yang quotes the following:<br />“Fairies were firmly connected to the landscape and deeply rooted in <br />the soil. The importance of respecting the land which they frequented was widely recognized. It was bad luck to interfere with, or try to remove, trees, bushes, stones, ancient buildings or anything else believed to have fairy associations. Misfortune, illness, or even death might result from tampering with fairy property.” <br />[Henderson and Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief. 2001]<br /><br />Yang continues:<br /><br />'Marx explicitly stated at the end of the Manifesto that the ommunist <br />movements “bring to the fore, as the leading question in each, the <br />property question, no matter its degree of development at the time,” and the struggle for the ‘fairy property’ of the commons is nothing if not such a question. If ‘spectre’ is a more philosophically mediated, reified form, divorced from the earthly spirits that directly haunt the <br />peasant imagination, its Hegelian origin nonetheless lay in the <br />commons, as Marx recognized with genuine surprise twenty years after composing the anifesto: “But what would old Hegel say in the next world if he heard that the general, [Allgemaine], in German and Norse means but the common land [Gemeinland], and the particular, [Sundre, Besondere], nothing but the separate property divided off from the common land?” '<br />[Marx, Pre-capitalist Economic Formations 142]<br /><br />Manuel Yang's paper is avilable at:><br />http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi?toledo1122656731<br /><br />For an overbiew of Helen Macfaralane's philosophy see:<br /><br />http://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/2010_1xtra-antigone.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798798603664853429.post-14189658498523273992010-09-23T03:38:46.832+02:002010-09-23T03:38:46.832+02:00Good post. I think there has been a demistificati...Good post. I think there has been a demistification of monsters in D&D, that leads them to not having the "fright" factor that underlies there origins. I'm not sure there's a way to capture any of that, but it might be worth the effort.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.com