Dec10 15:11
Grasping State College Dialectically
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Writing in Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson offers the following reading of Marx on capitalism:
We are somehow to lift our minds to a point at which it is possible to understand that capitalism is at one and the same time the best thing that has ever happened to the human race, and the worst. The lapse from this austere dialectical imperative into the more comfortable stance of the taking of moral positions is inveterate and all too human: still, the urgency of the subject demands that we make at least some effort to think the cultural evolution of late capitalism dialectically, as catastrophe and progress, all together.
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