[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

[Eric Beck]

> And the "surface" of the Ring?  To find politics in the Ring you have to go
> *below* the surface, the way GBS did in "The Perfect Wagnerite."  And what
> did Shaw find there?  Marxism, that's what:  "Alberich's Tarnhelm is the Top
> Hat of a capitalist."  "Siegfried is Bakoonin." [Shavian spelling]

Das Rheingold is clearly the process of primitive accumulation put in
artistic language. And in that respect, it's nearly as good as the
first season of Deadwood.