[lbo-talk] The Ideology Problem

[shag carpet bomb]

At 11:24 PM 5/3/2010, SA wrote:
>I think you have a point in a certain sense. The US left (including 
>liberals/progressives, whatever) is constantly missing an enormous 
>rhetorical opportunity to advance a critique of markets. Public colleges 
>and Medicare and Soc Sec and lots of other things are non-market 
>institutions. Although the public doesn't think of them this way, they are 
>popular *because* they are non-market institutions. But they are never 
>depicted that way in political discourse. (Partly because of the Ideology 
>Problem.)

isn't the problem, from a marxist perspective, that we think in terms of 
market and non-market institutions? over here is the market, over here is 
the state, over here is civil society: that's a way of think that emerged 
with capitalism, itself; an ideology justifying it's naturalness, 
inevitability (in terms of progress! :) in terms of the way the cleavages 
between the three ostensibly enhanced individual freedom.

shag

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