A specter looms over the Music Industry—threatening the present social order of proletariat artist and the bourgeoisie record executive. Like many of the products we buy, music is something that we enjoy every day, but are completely oblivious to the exploitative systems by which it is created. The glimmering facade of wealth, power, and happiness [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Communism’
The Instruments of Production: Marx & The Music Industry
Posted in Section 2, tagged Communism, Marx, music, Prince, the communist manifesto, The Instruments of Production, the music industry on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Marxist Communism and Freud
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Communism, Engels, Freud, Marx, Marxism on December 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Who leads Marx’s communist state? From the limited Marx and Engels readings that we have covered in our class, I have come to understand Marx’s idea of the communist state as, if not naïve, at least an incomplete one. I base this analysis particularly on pages 808 and 809, in the “Communist Manifesto” section of [...]