Ahh, but what are material interests? Is it in my interest to have the
weekend off or to accumulate an extra 150$ a week? Is it in my interest
to exploit other people to enhance my comfort, or to develop meaningful,
communicative relationships which will allow for genuine peace of mind.
And so forth...
STeven Sherman
SUNY at Binghamton
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, christopher chase-dunn wrote:
> the best world-system stuff on world views i have seen is that by the
> anthropologist Jonathan Friedman (_Cultural Identity and Global Process_
> Sage 1994). Al Bergesen has written insightfully about art and hegemony,
> and I like what David Harvey says about the relationship between
> flexible specialization and postmodernism in his _The Condition of
> Postmodernity_. But I remain an unreconstructed Marvin Harrisite (ist).
> Ideas are mainly reflections of material interests.
>
> But even I have to admit that the current hegemony of neoliberalism in a
> context of declining U.S. hegemony and global crisis is a rather
> interesting phenomenon. Go figure.
> chris
>