Kenneth Burke: The agro‐Bohemian 'Marxoid'
| Autor: | Don M. Burks |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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| Zdroj: | Communication Studies. 42:219-233 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1035 1051-0974 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10510979109368337 |
| Popis: | Rejecting the belief widely held in the United States that democracy requires capitalism, Kenneth Burke has feared that capitalism often promotes an enslaving consumerism, thus endangering basic democratic values. The word “communism” had a personal meaning for Burke in that he associated it with the family of terms: communication, communicant, community, and communion. Although he stopped using the word “communism” after the middle of the 1930s, samples of his published and unpublished writing from the 1930s through the 1980s demonstrate that he never abandoned certain convictions related to his meaning for the word, convictions that also are evident in his lifestyle. Bringing to Marxist theory his particular combination of ideas from Veblen, Freud, and Aristotle, among others, KB may be characterized by his own self‐descriptions, agro‐Bohemian and “Marxoid.” |
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