Re: [Marxism] Financial crisis not related to overaccumulation

["Gary MacLennan" <gary.maclennan1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes Lou

I have always found James Heartfield's work interesting.  He has very
generously sent me his books so  I have read his stuff on subjectivity and
on postmodernism and I do have sympathy with much of what he says.

Take this clip though


"All of the weird trends of our time: the infantilisation of the public, the
dumbing-down of the public discourse, the excessively fragile,
victim-centred outlook that seeks to take all of the conflict out of life
and love, all of these are in the end a manifestation of that singular
retreat from Subjectivity which dominates our age".

I have just posted a response to the film  *The Assassination of Jesse James
* and if I had read Heartfield's piece first I would have placed the film
within the context of the collapse of subjectivity.  That would help explain
a central puzzle for me - why make a film about Jessee James today?

However I would point out here that Hartfield's thought is as much
influenced by Nietzsche as by Marx.  For the latter the crucial text as you
have pointed out is The Manifesto and its apparent hymn to the joys of
industrial capitalism.

But it is the entrepreneur as Over Man that truly haunts Heartfield's work.
This indeed can be seen as something of a lament for the passing of the
friendly neighbourhood factory owner.  Again that makes James Heartfield for
me so English and so over determined by the decline that has been Britain
since the Boer War.


regards

Gary
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