Sean Andrews wrote: > But the idea that the thing that made Nazi Germany *NOT* capitalist is > the absence of some consumer fantasy about constant consumption is an > a-historical projection of post-war western societies of mass > consumption backwards into the pre-war society ...
it's _also_ an ahistorical projection of the 1920s US, during which the mass consumption society took its baby steps and then fell down and went boom (and, by coincidence, also the period when mass consumer credit was born) and perhaps other limited periods of capitalist history. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
