Well, Rockwell was intending to depict a modern metropolitan ethnic mixture. You can attack anything you want for not having something in it you favor. There are no American Indians, African Americans or Latinos in The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, nor in the Shootings of the 3rd of May, the Last Supper or a thousand other paintings.
I think what Rockwell was idealizing was a New England Town Meeting - mythological, of course. But Marxism as a tool of analysis isn't a form of personal therapy as some make it seem, often including ourselves. -----Original Message----- From: Nestor Gorojovsky <[email protected]> To: Wayne M. Collins <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 8:49 am Subject: [Marxism] Freedom of speech and white privilege Fred Feldman escribió: August 7, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist The Town Hall Mob By PAUL KRUGMAN There's a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled "Freedom of Speech," depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.'s "Four Freedoms," shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion. His neighbors obviously don't like what he's saying, but they're letting him speak his mind. There isn´t a single Black, Hispanic or American Indian face in that ainting. ________________________________________________ OU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. end list submissions to: [email protected] et your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/shacht%40aol.com ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
