Subject: Re: M-I: Beavis & Butt-head
From: jschulman-AT-juno.com (Jason A Schulman)
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 13:27:19 EST



On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 Doug Henwood writes regarding Beavis and Butt-head:

>Now to give this some Marxian relevance. Robert Paul Wolff wrote a 
>little book a few years back arguing that Marx's ironic style was
directly
>traceable to his view of capitalist society, in which there was great
>tension between appearance and reality. Earlier forms of irony and/or
>satire were intentionally very critical - and obviously Marx used 
>irony in highly critical ways. Postmodern irony, however, represents a
kind of
>distancing, an avoidance of responsibility, a having-it-both-ways. (In 
>some sense, too, Marx's view of capitalism, as the simultaneously the
best 
>and worst thing that ever happened to human society, in Terry Eagleton's
>phrase, is a kind of having-it-both-ways.)

Yes, well, at this point in history we can safely say, without irony,

"Huh huh, uh huh huh, capitalism sucks, uh huh huh"

-- Jason "Fartknocker" Schulman
______
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary
is guided by a great feeling of love.  It is impossible to think of a
genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
- Che Guevara



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