Re: BHA: Delivered up to the world

["Erik Weissengruber" <epweissengruber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Gary wrote:

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> > How I wonder would Adorno have accounted for the tendency towards occultism

> > in say the slave mode of production? or feudalism? or mercantilism? or

> > "non-late" capitalism?

> >

>Good point. The problem with the Frankfurt school (among several) is that

>they lack a sophisticated understanding of the over arching Ideology

>secreted by each of the mode of productions.

Individual sociologists associated with the Frankfurters did do more discreet studies of particular epochs (and their empirical investigations uncovered that the attitudes and values of the working class were far different from what Marxist activists believed them to be)

I think Gary is confusing Adorno's aphoristic treatment of the function of occultism within late capitalism with a general theory of the occult

 

 Ideology and superstructures

>are secereted by the base, but base takes priority in some way or another

>over superstructure (against F. school). Ideology emerges from the

>economic, but sufficiently differianted and complex that it cannot be

>collapsed/reduced to the economic (against Stalinists).

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>J.C. Rodriguez has an excellent book dealing with the dominant Ideology of

>feudalism (what he calls substantialism), the intermediate ideology in the

>infamous 'transition' (what he calls animism), and a discussion of the

>ideologies of the various stages of capitalism. His method is to engage

>in a discussion of the ideological, political, and economic levels of

>these societies.

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>-Victor

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