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 --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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