[lbo-talk] RE: Lost in Translation

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Thu Oct 23 12:36:58 PDT 2003


Carrol wrote:


> It sounds like an excellent movie -- but if you take it to another level
> of abstraction, it is as deeply imbued with capitalist ideology as a Fox
> newscast. Alienation, it reveals, is NOT a necessary and "objective"
> property of capitalist relations

Alienation from life is a necessary and "objective" feature of some lives in every time and place:

He who has lived and thought can never Look on mankind without disdain; He who has felt is haunted ever By days that will not come again; No more for him enchantment's semblance, On him the serpent of remembrance Feeds, and remorse corrodes his heart.

(From Pushkin's _Eugene Onegin_)



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