My Man Mahmoud said:
Marxist reading of cultural phenomena = FAIL

*stops coughing and wipes tears out of eyes*
Ohhhhhh....you are in for quite the ride,
My Man. Quite the ride at some point, indeed….
You haven't been paying attention, have you? In the pages of
decibel and
Terrorizer there have been sporadic references to black metal being the highest and purest form of capitalism over the past few months--in a positive way.
The text under examination and the article is more of a garbled and incredibly clumsy Gramscian reading of events, but that is splitting hairs that don't need to be put to the knife. It really is a half-assed, pop postmodern cultural studies approach ( it could be Smith or Proudhon--it doesn't matter once it is run through the meatgrinder), you should familiarize yourself with the difference--it will stand you in good stead in the future.
Jesus….this is just plain dumb…
The ascetic peasant was no longer a capitalist ideal; what was needed was a consumer class that spent its meager income on whatever useless (but desirable) junk the new industrialist bourgeois could crank out of their factories.
The ignorance of the history and development of capitalism and the peasantry (or disappearance in this case) is so deep and vast here that the only sane reaction is to laugh to keep from crying--so Bennett failed in his stated objective.
We like to think of extreme metal as the antithesis to mainstream—and thus, bourgeois—ideals, but in fact heavy music has never more fully embodied the hyper-capitalist attitudes of the ruling class.
If you look past all the terms and concepts being needlessly thrown around here, there is a kernel of truth in this statement. I’m going to put it over an open flame and make it pop some day in the future.
Hey...we all kind of almost agreed on something there. Scary...Maybe we should have a round of sing-a-along. Open your books to "Brothers Of Metal."
