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that really isn't a definition of capitalism--that's an aesthetic predisposition.
i'm way too much of a historian to find that adequate.
to wax marxian for a minute (and to show just how far apart we probably are aesthetically)--capitalism refers to the entire mode of production shaped by the particular relations of ownership to wage labor and the internal organizational tendencies toward standardization and fragmentation. ideology is but a part of this picture. liberal ideology is an even smaller part.
nothing's at stake in this sort of debate, really, so we have the option of whether we choose to talk past each other or not--at least as time goes on i'm getting a better idea of why we have talked past each other in the past, though--which is interesting in itself...just saying (and there's not sarcasm in that..sometimes i wonder if everything i write comes off so)
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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