late capitalism's bleeding edge.

[Mark Kohut]

I am going out on a thick Teutonic limb to declare, with hardly  a hint of
circumstantial evidence even, that our author
got the phrase from Werner Sombart, mentioned within.   Not Mandel nor any
of those Marxist epigones.

I say provocatively that Max Weber wasn't a one-off as a deep
sociologist/cultural historian---the deepest?--from whom TRP developed his
wide and deep perspective on the history of the West (and East for that
matter). Even I know that there were more than two
great German thinkers in that era when the basic depth charges and
discipline were being formed. ......I bet he read more than just Weber.
I can see him inhaling the words, taking some notes even...outlining the
arguments and insights (maybe) on his engineering
pad. (Or maybe not, maybe just some underlining? )

German sociology was like Greek drama then; German sociology was like Latin
American Magical Realism in the sixties, so to speak.

He makes too much sport of pure Marxism, whatever that is, throughout his
work, to have spent much time on the Mandels, in my
arrogant judgment. Maybe some Engels hisself, but........too damn literal
for a novelist of ideas, I repeat for the first time.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> It is interesting to see the term has such a long history. I've always
> associated it with 60s socialists - Mandel and company. Always struck me as
> an overly optimistic term, who's to say capitalism hasn't got some hundreds
> of years to go before it can be cast off.
>
> On 01-May-17 8:59 PM, Jade Becker wrote:
>
> I think I remember David Foster Wallace alluding to this sort of
> cultural/economic turn in "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction"
> essay, which was just great and mind-altering for me.
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca
>> pitalism/524943/
>>
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