File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 173


Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 15:05:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-gladstone.uoregon.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Re: Fall of the English Empire--Not!


On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Hugh Rodwell wrote:

> And it seems pretty obvious that Dennis R never watches tv. Unless of
> course the States is way ahead of the rest of us with riveting Japanese and
> Indonesian soaps and cop slop every hour of the week. Not forgetting the
> never-ending parade of table tennis and badminton tournaments on our
> screens or all that land hockey the Indians force down our throats.

Silly me, I'd forgotten that capitalist superstructures like
video clips, CNN soundbites, and the propaganda of our culture-industry 
determine the material basis of the capitalist world-system, and not
infrastructural things like factories, the accumulation of 
financial-industrial capital or the class struggle. As Marx so pithily
put it, all that is air melts before solidifying.

-- Dennis



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