Eric wrote:
>In short, distaste for rock-and-roll might be intimately linked to the
>revoluationary vanguard that takes over the state "in the name of the
>capitalist masses."
making another link, this is straight out of Rousseau, who saw the masses
as corrupted and thus hoped that an enlightened Legislator would impose his
ideal social contract. This imposition included cultural censorship.
BTW, Rousseau's censorship (and other obnoxious activities, like the
creation of an official civic religion) is similar to Plato's conceptions
in the REPUBLIC, except what Plato wanted only for the elite Guardians, R
wanted for everyone.
I think that there's a link between philosophical idealism -- e.g., Plato,
Rousseau, the Walrasianism of the IMF and other neoliberal forces, and
Stalin's idealist version of "diamat" and "histomat" -- and imposition on
others from above.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
