The Friendly Facism of Disney Re: [lbo-talk] AmeriLand (was Classless Society)

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Fri Apr 21 10:59:03 PDT 2006


On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Colin Brace wrote:


> On 4/21/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If your idea of socialism is fascist modernism consciously planned and
>> controlled by corporations to take control of your daily life then
>> Disneyworld is "socialist".
>
> [...]
>
> Although Wojtek didn't lace his comment with smilies, I thought I
> detected a faint whiff of irony...

Somewhere in one of his books, Michael Harrington talks about his initial attraction to (I believe) EPCOT. It's an old story, of course--see George Bernard Shaw's _Major Barbara_ for an earlier version.



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