[lbo-talk] Class Struggle & Detective Fiction? Re: The American Prospect 8/30/07:"What's behindthesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner

[Michael Perelman]

The big capitalists are bad in the Westerns -- mostly bankers.  The good little 
ranchers are nice but they depend on the strong white guy on a white horse to defend 
them.  Sounds like populism with a tinge of the worst elements of that form of 
politics.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:40:29PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> 5.And most of all (and this error is omnipresent in left critique of
> fiction and film), if individual capitalists are the villain, than the
> fiction is PRO-capitalist, not anti-capitalist. Haven't any of you
> people seen any of the old B-Westerns: all pro-capitalist and a
> capitalist is ALWAYS the villain.
> 

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Michael Perelman
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