--attributed to Herrman Goering, but in fact due to the Nazi playwright Hanns Johst, subject of the film Mephisto
or maybe
"When I hear the word "culture" I reach for my checkbook"?
-- the vulgar American film producer Jeremiah Prokosch (played by Jack Palance) in the Godard's brilliant film Contempt (if you want to see Brigitte Bardot naked, this film's for you) (also if you want to see Fritz Lang playing Fritz Lang directing a movie-within-the-movie based on the Odyssey) (hey, I said it was Godard flick, remember?)
--- On Sat, 12/13/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Catholicism, was Re: blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 2:11 PM
> Sorry for the top posting...I mean I rather like aspects of
> capitalism's destruction of "culture" and
> "civil society," though I thought capitalism
> created civil society as a realm apart from state and
> market.
>
> On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > Too many triple/quadruple negatives coiled about each
> other here for me
> > to wholly decipher.
> >
> > Carrol
> >
> > Doug Henwood wrote:
> >>
> >> On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:45 AM, shag carpet bomb
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> there are lots of people sympathetic to a
> leftist, marxist economic
> >>> analysis who weep over the demise of
> "culture" and "civil society"
> >>> wrought by the destructive forces of
> capitalism. etc.
> >>
> >> Yeah. Myself, I'm not entirely unsympathetic
> to that destruction.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >
>
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