[lbo-talk] The liquidation of society

[Alan Rudy]

Bizarre question. Um, I take it you've heard of this guy Marx and what he
and his
intellectual and political descendants have said about accelerating the
turnover time
of capital and the instrumentalism and consumerism that follows - as well as
the
varieties of socialization which subsequently emerge (varieties the roots of
which
strong interactionists never query, though socialist feminist
interactionists do.
There was also this guy, Weber, who talked about status and its importance
within
the context of class dynamics... not that Marxists were unaware of this by
many
means but sociologists generally think that the are/were.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> For a starter, how does your "materialist" isms explain the behavior of
> elites who have accumulated enough to live not one but several very
> comfortable lives without lifting a finger, and yet they engage in intense
> competition with other elites to accumulate even more?  For
> interactionists,
> explaining this is a piece of cake.
>
> Wojtek
>
>