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Introduction to International Political Economy, Fourth Edition
David N. Balaam & Michael Veseth
Pg. 69
"What about The Lion King, the Disney animated classic? Deep structures are what are important here, too, not the surface tale of singing zoology."
I was watching my laundry when I read this part and it took all of my being not to laugh out loud and disturb the other people washing clothes and passing the time.
"Is it difficult to see that the lions in this film are the feudal aristocracy class in the precapitalism era? Certainly they behave like feudal lords and ladies, relying on power to maintain power -- they control the local geography, which is their means of production -- and their society is even organized as a hereditary monarchy. You cannot get much more feudal than this."
Ahaaaahahhahaha
My other favorite quotes:
"Marx would tell us that it is their role to rise up and destroy the feudal lion kingdom so as to make way for the next stage of history: capitalism... The feudal lions, however, want to hold onto what they've got, so they sing about a "circle of life," which keeps coming back around, always with them on top and the other animals on the bottom."
"...the crisis of capitalism begins to loom over the African landscape."
"This makes the lions happy, presumably, but it seems unlikely that Marx and Engels would give it 'two thumbs up.'"
Well, I'm not going to forget Marxism for a while now. Thank you, Balaam and Veseth, for having Disney fetishes.
In other news, I have recently come into a ton of money, due to leftovers from my scholarship and another completely different scholarship that is given directly to me. Travel? Yes? But where? So many choices. I also feel like I should be using it to put toward a car that doesn't die all the time like mine does, but we'll see. I'd rather ride a bike and see something cool.
David N. Balaam & Michael Veseth
Pg. 69
"What about The Lion King, the Disney animated classic? Deep structures are what are important here, too, not the surface tale of singing zoology."
I was watching my laundry when I read this part and it took all of my being not to laugh out loud and disturb the other people washing clothes and passing the time.
"Is it difficult to see that the lions in this film are the feudal aristocracy class in the precapitalism era? Certainly they behave like feudal lords and ladies, relying on power to maintain power -- they control the local geography, which is their means of production -- and their society is even organized as a hereditary monarchy. You cannot get much more feudal than this."
Ahaaaahahhahaha
My other favorite quotes:
"Marx would tell us that it is their role to rise up and destroy the feudal lion kingdom so as to make way for the next stage of history: capitalism... The feudal lions, however, want to hold onto what they've got, so they sing about a "circle of life," which keeps coming back around, always with them on top and the other animals on the bottom."
"...the crisis of capitalism begins to loom over the African landscape."
"This makes the lions happy, presumably, but it seems unlikely that Marx and Engels would give it 'two thumbs up.'"
Well, I'm not going to forget Marxism for a while now. Thank you, Balaam and Veseth, for having Disney fetishes.
In other news, I have recently come into a ton of money, due to leftovers from my scholarship and another completely different scholarship that is given directly to me. Travel? Yes? But where? So many choices. I also feel like I should be using it to put toward a car that doesn't die all the time like mine does, but we'll see. I'd rather ride a bike and see something cool.