RE: Dependency theory

So could we describe this as intellectual totalitarianism? Begs me to wonder
just how democratic western society is. Using this line of thought, can
parallels be drawn between the repression of artists ALA Rivera in the US,
and the suppression of the right to peaceful protest, such as that
demonstrated by the police (and presumably the UK government) during the
recent visit by Jiang Zemin to London. Does this tie in with the
globalisation of capitalism - specifically in the controls exerted in
maintaining the conditions for capitalism to prosper? 

Someone tell me I'm not being overly cynical...

I've been following the thread of discussion on murals, and though I didn't
know anything about Rivera, I find this extremely interesting. A book of
murals was mentioned by someone - I wonder if they might have the publishing
details to hand?

Regards, Paul.

 

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Paul Broome 
Department of Geography 
Royal Holloway College 
University of London 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Grant-Friedman [ mailto:andrearz@eden.rutgers.edu
<mailto:andrearz@eden.rutgers.edu> ]
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 4:08 PM
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
> Cc: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
> Subject: Re: Dependency theory
>
>
> The muralist is definitely Diego Rivera. If Mexcio City is
> far away, he
> also painted an entire room in the Detroit Museum of Art during the
> 1930's. New Yorkers would be lucky enough to have his murals in
> Rockefeller Center, if he hadn't included a portrait of Lenin
> in one of
> them. When Rivera refused to remove it, the mural was destroyed.
>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 Balaju@aol.com wrote:
>
> > The muralist is probably Diego Rivera?
> >
> >
>