[lbo-talk] Class Analysis of the Empire?

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Mon Feb 7 16:58:13 PST 2005


Yoshie wrote:


> For the last several years, we have seen outpourings of
> books and articles critical of US imperialism (and Israel), but class
> analyses of the empire, especially ones that clarify American
> workers' positions in it (or ones that clarify Jewish workers'
> positions in Israel), are hard to come by, perhaps because of the
> waning of Marxism.

The critique is already out there, in the form of Peter Jackson's film trilogy -- a profound meditation on the micropolitics and geopolitics of the US Empire, in its hour of historic doom. The culture of Marxism may be waning, but the Marxism of culture continues to flourish.

-- DRR



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