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On 02 May 2015, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Brain via Marxism
wrote:
> https://defendtrotskyism.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/why-rihannas-song-american-oxgyen-shows-the-potential-of-a-deepening-radicalziation-to-threaten-american-capitalism-despite-the-liberal-bourgeosie-using-the-song-to-contain-this-radicalziation/
There are valid insights here about the unfolding radicalisation of the 99+%,
but I think your reading of the song and video involves a lot of wishful
thinking. The gulf between the lylrics and the imagery is enormous, but the
overall impression of the combination is an amorphous, depoliticised embrace of
social tension as itself somehow a beautiful thing - a recasting of the
"American Dream” from /actually getting ahead in life/, to /fighting against a
repressive system in hopes of getting ahead/. It redeems police repression and
war by making them vital, constitutive elements of the “New America”. Imagine
how boring things would be without all this repression and imperial violence to
fight against.
It’s a cunning ideological move by the ruling class, possibly buying them a few
more months in which to loot in relative comfort and safety, before the methyl
clathrates blow us all to hell.
She (more precisely, her producers) could have kept it much shorter:
“I love the smell of oppression in the morning.”
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