[lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis

[Gail Brock]

Are you differentiating general philosophy/beliefs from specific policies?  Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Jungle seem to have advanced specific policies.

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From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 10:08:51 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis

Let me toss out an undeveloped thesis.

Art of any kind has social impact only as a conversation piece. It never
affects the politics, religion, philossophy of viewer/reader/etc
directly but onlyas it is discussed after the fact.

The most USEFUL film in film history from the point of view othe U.S.
Left is Birth of a Nation. It is rectionary as an isolated artifiact; it
is revolutionary as a conversation piece.

Carrol
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