RE: The New, Nihilistic America
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Doug:
This is a very interesting piece. It seems that while one part of classical Marixst politics - the material interests of the proletariat in expropriating the expropriators - has lost its salience, another - the alienating, atomizing effects of life under capitalism - has greatly increased.
I think it has less to do with capitalism in general and more to do with the nature of the US society - government policies, land use, consumerism, media, value systems, etc. The EU style capitalism does not seem to suffer from the same maladies, at least not to the same degree.
1) Give Europe time, and 2) Europe has, and has had, many non-capitalist and anti-capitalist tendencies and movements, unlike the USA, which has known little other than capitalism.
Doug