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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

It's the other way around tho. Gunboat diplomacy for latam and the Marshall plan for Europe established the material groundwork for American culture to grow in.

[-] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Yes, the word above 'creates' was misplaced. However, the cultural hegemony has grown into a beast which has helped reformed that material basis many times over since

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cultural hegemony also maintains the material base of empire by making the metropole's priorities and perspective "common sense", it just happens that common sense always works out in its favor. .

Base and superstructure etc.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago
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