tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2228259238422309650.post5284387702864892508..comments2023-05-12T15:26:53.880+01:00Comments on Cocktails and Feminism: Capitalism: A Love Story.ruthie jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14362167253729492279noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2228259238422309650.post-64908854978215528512010-04-10T00:30:08.134+01:002010-04-10T00:30:08.134+01:00Hello!
Your vivid phrase "hulking machine of...Hello!<br /><br />Your vivid phrase "hulking machine of capitalism" put me in mind of something written in, dare I say it...1829! I know it's old, but still it just shows how deep seated all this stuff Moore is dealing with is. It's Thomas Carlye's 'Sign's of the Times: the Mechanical Age.' <br /><br />Carlyle wrote 'There is no end to machinery' - just thinking about how Moore's film broached the question of an end to Capitalism...<br /><br />A little from Carlyle - <br /><br />"We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils. What wonderful accessions have thus been made, and are still making, to the physical power of mankind; how much better fed, clothed, lodged and, in all outward respects, accommodated men now are, or might be, by a given quantity of labour, is a grateful reflection which forces itself on every one. What changes, too, this addition of power is introducing into the Social System; how wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor, will be a question for Political Economists, and a much more complex and important one than any they have yet engaged with."<br />Dora xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2228259238422309650.post-17574462467041976812010-04-10T00:25:12.067+01:002010-04-10T00:25:12.067+01:00Hello!
Your vivid phrase "hulking machine of...Hello!<br /><br />Your vivid phrase "hulking machine of capitalism" put me in mind of something written in, dare I say it...1829! I know it's old, but still it just shows how deep seated all this stuff Moore is dealing with is. It's Thomas Carlye's 'Sign's of the Times: the Mechanical Age.' <br /><br /> <br /><br />Carlyle wrote 'There is no end to machinery' - just thinking about how Moore's film broached the question of an end to Capitalism...<br /><br /> <br /><br />A little from Carlyle - <br /><br /> <br /><br />"We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.<br /><br />What wonderful accessions have thus been made, and are still making, to the physical power of mankind; how much better fed, clothed, lodged and, in all outward respects, accommodated men now are, or might be, by a given quantity of labour, is a grateful reflection which forces itself on every one. What changes, too, this addition of power is introducing into the Social System; how wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor, will be a question for Political Economists, and a much more complex and important one than any they have yet engaged with."<br />Dora xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com