[lbo-talk] Avatar: The Exquisite Horror of The Strange stranger

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jan 8 17:29:20 PST 2010


Dennis Claxton writes: 'I think he's saying Hollywood anti-capitalism is not anti-capitalism at all.'

Or as Lenin explained in 1899 Romantic Anti-Capitalism is not really Anti-Capitalism at all, but a conservatism that helps to preserve the status quo (and Marx said much the same of 'Feudal Socialism').

The aesthetic is very familiar. There was a science fiction illustrator, Bill Woodruff of something like that, who did all those floating mountains in the late seventies, for album covers and cheap paperbacks.



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