From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 08/29/02-11:52:34 AM Z
> So is Karl Marx, no matter how badly things may have gone in
> the actual nation-states purporting to be Marxist.
>
So true, so true. Marx gave us a basis to critique capitalism, which he argued
was inherently flawed for the masses. If we look at the World Trade Assoc. and
other world bodies (there's a Fruedian slip there somewhere) and the protest they
receive everytime they attempt to pull off a "world summit," we can see his ideas
at work... they are protesting a current spread of capitalism now called
"globalization."
For a stab at remaining on-topic, when we "look" at the state of art history, art
movements (like post modernism), art statements (which get noticed in the press),
we often find the ramifications of Marxist ideaology. It may be called by other
names, but underlying some contemporary art and studies of media, we find the
effects of capitalism being criticized. e.i. "photos of naked ladies sell better
than those of men." (the fact that there is a market for these is interesting
enough, but) To accept that fact and you may have a rudimentary understanding of
how capital shapes a culture or how social power is transfer through currency
exchange.
Boy, am I out of my depth here! I'm going off to take an aspirin.
- Darryl
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