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> [If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/if-it-is-in-reality-capitalism-that-is-the-motor-force-behind-the/)

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## More by Fredric Jameson

> [If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/if-it-is-in-reality-capitalism-that-is-the-motor-force-behind-the/)

[Fredric Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredric-jameson/)

> [“. . . it is a mistake to think that Marxism is simply a type of interpretation that takes the economic "sequence" as that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/it-is-a-mistake-to-think-that-marxism-is-simply-a-type-of/)

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> [“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its daily life).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/the-novel-is-the-anti-form-proper-to-modernity-itself-which-is-to-say/)

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> [The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/the-united-states-has-made-a-massive-effort-since-the-end-of-the/)

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> [A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/a-further-point-is-that-little-by-little-in-the-current-universe/)

[Fredric Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredric-jameson/)

> [If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/if-everything-were-transparent-there-would-be-no-ideologies/)

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> [It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/it-is-now-easier-to-imagine-the-end-of-the-world-than-to-imagine-the/)

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> [Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/utopia-would-seem-to-offer-the-spectacle-of-one-of-those-rare/)

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> [“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/i-ek-seems-to-have-got-hitchcock-out-of-his-system-if-not-out-of-his/)

[Fredric Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredric-jameson/)

> [For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/for-when-we-talk-about-the-spreading-power-and-influence-of/)

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> [In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/in-a-world-in-which-stylistic-innovation-is-no-longer-possible-all/)

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> [In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/in-most-of-the-european-countries-france-stands-out-in-its-resistance/)

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> [The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/the-visual-is-essentially-pornographic-which-is-to-say-that-it-has/)

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> [It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/it-is-safest-to-grasp-the-concept-of-the-postmodern-as-an-attempt-to/)

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> [Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredric-jameson/often-these-downplay-the-power-of-cultural-imperialism-in-that-sense/)

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