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Re: Given that western democracies since (4.00 / 4)

If marketing is the art of manufacturing happiness with a product which is anything but what it claims to be, then perhaps politics is becoming the art of manufacturing consent to a "reality" which is anything but what it claims to be.

I think a diary on the concept of the reification of democracy and its implications for "progress" is warranted, Redstar! My Althusser isn't up to much...

Index of Frank's Diaries

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Dec 8th, 2010 at 07:03:06 AM EST
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Mine either.... (none / 1)

...drawing more from Lukacs in my case, unfashionable as that may be.

I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from them Eugene Debs

by redstar on Wed Dec 8th, 2010 at 07:53:31 AM EST
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Ruling Party Melt-down and the End of the EU project in Ireland | 144 comments (144 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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