>Doug:
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>> 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.
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>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.
1) Give Europe time, and 2) Europe has, and has had, many non-capitalist and anti-capitalist tendencies and movements, unlike the USA, which has known little other than capitalism.
Doug