BP to Hell
BP’s underwater oil geyser, now that we have video coverage, no longer remains invisible. It competes for Prime Time. And yet while visible, it remains unrecognizable – a strange, amorphous reality persists in our memory.
Industrialism, and what came to be referred to as capitalism, took shape as we all know in a tumultuous era marked by a struggle that encompassed social and intellectual upheavals. During these several centuries the opposition to the dominance of Capital took many forms; in the early period from the aristocracy to the peasants who fought the enclosures and the early mechanization of economic life to the later period the craftspeople and the workers in the new factories.