tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18230118.post6254589690470722243..comments2023-04-27T11:58:37.175+01:00Comments on The Fluffy Economist: The UK cultural revolutionSimon Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00045940364682507474noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18230118.post-68990198895697318212008-10-30T16:56:00.000+00:002008-10-30T16:56:00.000+00:00there's an interesting Marxist "economic substruct...there's an interesting Marxist "economic substructure determining cultural superstructure" logic running through this<BR/><BR/>- one of the nicest things anyone's said to me. But wrong. I'm taken with the way different elements of society reflect others. Hence grouping culture and economics, not deterministically but because they capture a little of each other.<BR/><BR/>And there will always be Simon Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045940364682507474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18230118.post-48299306716914464982008-10-27T18:00:00.000+00:002008-10-27T18:00:00.000+00:00Heavy- there's an interesting Marxist "economic su...Heavy- there's an interesting Marxist "economic substructure determining cultural superstructure" logic running through this. But I'm not sure that it holds together fully for me. <BR/><BR/>I think culture often thrives in all the most adverse conditions- c.f Black jazz music under U.S repression, Brazilian slaves dancing capoiera, Romanian gypsy music. So to say that Thatcher created a sterileAnglefishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13412603674358068739noreply@blogger.com