tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post7059697825247011005..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: Where angels fear to treadAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-29628957215295953412013-09-22T03:31:10.806+01:002013-09-22T03:31:10.806+01:00Interesting, thanks, ksix.Interesting, thanks, ksix.stuart_zechmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14817215761981204304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-41911861236961458562013-09-21T00:32:39.495+01:002013-09-21T00:32:39.495+01:00Using Marxist analysis (101Wikipedia), Avedon and ...Using Marxist analysis (101Wikipedia), Avedon and Stuart are both right:<br /><br /><i>In the Marxist economic base and superstructure model of society...Ruling class-interests determine the superstructure and the nature of the justifying ideology — actions feasible because the ruling class control the means of production. For example, in a feudal mode of production, religious ideology is the most prominent aspect of the superstructure, while in capitalist formations, ideologies such as liberalism and social democracy dominate. Hence the great importance of the ideology justifying a society; it politically confuses the alienated groups of society via false consciousness, such as in the case of commodity fetishism — the belief that value is inherent to a commodity, rather than external, added to it via labor.<br /><br />The ruling class affect their social reproduction by the dominant ideology's representing — to every social-economic class — that the economic interests of the ruling class are the economic interests of the entire society.</i><br /><br />New Democrats - ideological AND corrupt.ksixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406854618914127269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-25896318658079663152013-09-19T18:20:11.202+01:002013-09-19T18:20:11.202+01:00I prefer Ricky Nelson's You Are My Sunshine wi...I prefer Ricky Nelson's You Are My Sunshine with the alto sax solo.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjtE-3j0l2sPaul Averynoreply@blogger.com