> This is a very interesting piece. It seems that while one
> part of classical Marixst politics - the material interests
> of the proletariat in expropriating the expropriators - has
> lost its salience, another - the alienating, atomizing
> effects of life under capitalism - has greatly increased.
I think it has less to do with capitalism in general and more to do with the nature of the US society - government policies, land use, consumerism, media, value systems, etc. The EU style capitalism does not seem to suffer from the same maladies, at least not to the same degree.
Wojtek