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you'd think that people would be able to look around, see something of what's going on even without Magickal and Secret Information, and say---ok we tried that, it's not worked out, now we have to do something else. if there's anything to this bullshit that has accompanied the fog of neo-liberalism about "american pragmatism" and all that, you'd expect most people to be already thinking in one or another version of this direction. but seemingly they aren't. seemingly, the sales job has convinced many people that the problem cannot be captialism itself, cannot be its geography or that power (and wealth) are now distributed in entirely dysfunctional ways, and that the problem has to be the state.
this flies in the face of over 100 years of the history of actually existing capitalism.
the sales job presupposes a profound ignorance of the history of the existing order.
marx was right about the nature of ideology--statements generated in the interest of the dominant faction of the dominant class that tends to erase the history of that dominant faction and in so doing erases conflict in order to present the statements made in the interest of the dominant faction of the dominant class as if they reflected the state of the world, and as if the world has always been that way.
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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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