From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 08:35:22 EST
Re Paul Z's [8583]: > Of course, the 'freedom' fries is also > unbelievable, but let's get just a shade critical and consider material > motives for these bourgeois countries' behaviors. Being critical, I think, means that we need to do *more than* consider material motives. We also need to consider the social mechanisms through which consent is manufactured in contemporary bourgeois societies. While "freedom fries" might sound unbelievable, it is part of a process whereby state policy is rationalized and popular perception is created and modified. "Freedom fries", after all, were intended for domestic consumption. Marxists, I think, have been OK at describing material motives but not so good at considering this process which has been described better by others -- especially the anarchist Naom Chomsky. In solidarity, Jerry
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