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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months 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.

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It's a feedback loop

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[+] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 1 point 3 months ago

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