cultural imperialism

[Kelley]

At 04:04 PM 11/14/01 +0000, Carl Remick wrote:
The US furnishes the global operating system, you might say, and all those 
other factors -- comprador classes in the Third World, etc. -- are just 
applications or viruses.

_capitalism_ is the operating system.

this reminds me of carrol's admonition that we shouldn't "personalize" our 
critiques. that is, carrol has been critical of those whose writing seems 
to examine the warts of individuals or categories of people (yuppies), 
rather than examining the operations of capital as the enemy.

kelley