期刊名称：Cultural Logic : an Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
电子版ISSN：1097-3087
出版年度：2009
出版社：Department of English and Foreign Languages
摘要：Immediately after the historic election of Barack Obama, the first African- American President of the United States, pundits in the mass media and pseudo-public intellectuals claimed that we have entered a “post-racial” epoch. This seems to echo not only the assorted “postalities” (post-modern, post-colonial, post-capitalist, etc.) in vogue but also the slew of “endisms” (“end of history” and “end of ideology”) that distinguished the period from the end of the Vietnam War in 1973 to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War in the nineties. Such trends betoken profound sociopolitical upheavals characterizing the vicissitudes of the Cold War from the end of World War II up to September 11, 2001, when anti-terrorism appeared to replace anti-communism as the prime ideological weapon of global capitalism. Terrorism, in fact, became conflated withcommunism as well as with Marxism and socialism, all anathema to a putative “American way of life.”
