Its really driving me nuts today. I understand the rage about the settlers around the world doing genocide and I froth at the mouth regularly but shitting on workers of the US, germany or any other state is just chauvinism in a different outfit.
The immigrant in germany who makes rap music does not have no culture, tupac who was an american communist did not have no culture, these people are human same as us and it is shocking to me that this huge contradiction is allowed to go unaddressed on a marxist-leninist instance.
1st point : Tupac died in 96. Did he ever really have cultural sovereignty over his own art? Hip hop is arguably a postmodern form of music - a rejection of Modernism. Postmodernism criticises Modernism’s cultural democratization through ironic appropriation of older cultures to create commodified products out of artistic expression. Read “Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” by Jameson.
2nd : “Settlers” by Sakai showed the colonial imperial attitude that built America was replaced by a labour aristocracy that has continued into neocolonialism. America became the cultural hegemony that dominates capitalist mass media exported around the globe. Hollywood cinema, streaming services, and social media are all American based corporate products. Arguably only China has its own ecosystem of mass media.
American settler culture has a motive to support the American capitalist class: creation of a racial hierarchy internally, rejection and denigration of other cultures, etc.
Postmodernism is a petty bourgeois movement funded by the CIA. Why would you recommend that book on lemmygrad?
Jameson is critical of Postmodernism in the book.
oohh I see. Thank you for replying.