tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post1923801610478379286..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Reagan Ended the ConversationDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-75429565062575261322014-11-23T17:09:03.283-08:002014-11-23T17:09:03.283-08:00Great comment, enjoyable read.
You are definitel...Great comment, enjoyable read. <br /><br />You are definitely right that the stagflation rap on the 70s is a mischracterization of a whole decade by the crisis at its end -- the 70s as a whole were one of the least wealth concentrated periods in US history (all the more amazing given the horrific extent of racist/sexist stratifications), and the consequent comparative equity created the conditions of the vibrant cultural expressivity and questioning of the period. <br /><br />Much of the stagnation and instability attributed to the period reflects the vestigial concerns of white reactionaries who still owned and controlled so much of the media that otherwise profited from the ferment they so feared. <br /><br />I think what happened in the 70s is that the plutocrats finally fully realized the New Deal and New Society were going to beat them without a Revolution. And so they overcame their default complacent conservatism and organized a revolutionary movement conservatism instead, politicizing white-racist and heteronormative fears via the religious right and re-directing always-raced class-resentment via the Southern Strategy (especially to dismantle organized labor) to save their elite-incumbency by out-organizing the democratic left which at the same time was stalling from the corruptions of its long ascendancy and from the internal contradictions of a class politics under-attentive to the relative autonomy of race, sex/gender, cultural capital as anti-democratizing forces.<br /><br />Or something like that.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-20538108527149559142014-11-18T14:34:56.824-08:002014-11-18T14:34:56.824-08:00My comment woudn't fit here, so I posted it he...My comment woudn't fit here, so I posted it <a href="http://anagory.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/is-anyone-nostalgic-for-the-70s/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.com