tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post4506308576528961817..comments2023-08-12T03:31:24.561-07:00Comments on postpostochlophobist: on left populist myths and sentiments...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post-25504947711343885492011-11-10T13:53:10.024-08:002011-11-10T13:53:10.024-08:00Could it be that this self creativity IS individua...Could it be that this self creativity IS individual self interest, desire, consumption etc?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post-90947843772503286242011-11-10T09:04:59.140-08:002011-11-10T09:04:59.140-08:00And what the Left needs to do is help build an alt...And what the Left needs to do is help build an alternate world system based on "self-creativity in manipulating and creating (our) own world"! This was the Situationist project and a major reason for the 68 riots... and something not really addressed by orthodox Marxist-Leninist groups. This is a major force of dissatisfaction with the capitalist system.Andrewhttp://cosmicfam.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post-16304618997878978742011-11-09T06:59:12.646-08:002011-11-09T06:59:12.646-08:00Agreed on your assessment of this talk: very compr...Agreed on your assessment of this talk: very comprehensive. The fetish that American political discourse seems to have about economic thought is avoiding like the plague the contradictions that take place at the point of production. Problems with capitalism always come from without, as in the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply, the “gummint”, the welfare state, foreign wars, immigrants, etc. The myth is that if the market is “left alone”, it would function most efficiently and justly. It’s an intoxicating myth, and related to Dunayevskaya’s supporters crusade to defend Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit: the idea that capitalism in the abstract doesn’t produce crisis, but real existing imperialist capitalism does, etc. Thus, for a large part of the left, “finance capital” becomes the boogey man, as does “late capitalism”, “neoliberalism”, etc. Same shit, different labels. <br /><br />Metaphysically speaking, I have always wondered what the reluctance to attribute the functioning of society to labor ultimately produces at the level of ideology. For some, the workings of the market, abstract individual self-interest, the consumer (“the customer is always right”), desire, etc. are what makes human beings tick, not the self-creativity in manipulating and creating their own world. What type of society do these ideologies produce? I think we see it every day.AVhttp://elblogdelpelon.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com