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The major social problems in the US today, that are the source of the observable disintegration, result from the "normal" functioning of the advanced corporate capitalist system. The Marxist theory of alienation exposes the basic institutional decision-making processes throughout capitalism's historical development as predictably generating outcomes that do not reflect the needs & preferences of the affected social participants. The dictates of growth & profit maximization lead to the alienation of people from their work & its product, from technology, from community & environment, from self & culture, & from the state apparatus. The development of a comprehensive counter-culture, which is fundamentally anticommodity-fetishist & socialist, must be the immediate object of radical activism. This consciousness must be the motivating force for revolution, & not a postrevolutionary goal. The counter-culture unites Marxist alienation theory & political practice, in order to further the struggle of powerless workers & citizens for control over their work & communities. The demand for workers' control of production can dispel the prevalent bureaucratic mentality within the hierarchically stratified US Wc. The particular demands of students, youth, blacks & women must be linked into a program emphasizing the common interests of these groups that come together at the point of generation of the alienated LF--the school system. The central goal of the revolutionary struggle is the restructuring of the core capitalist institutions that dominate everyday life--not just the securing of state power, which is merely the final logical step in the development of counter-culture consciousness. A. Karmen.

Discussed is how & why artificial negativity is displacing one-dimensionality. The significance of the United States containment policy from the Truman to the Nixon administrations is examined. Covert means of political control are discussed. The development & meaning of counter-bureaucratic movements during the 1960s are examined, the most important being the transnationalization of corporate capital during the late 1960s. The process of corporate policy needs becoming the substance of national foreign policy is detailed. The attempts of corporate capital to reverse the advances of the welfare state are discussed. The reconstitution of organic negativity would require the projection of new political needs for social individuality. A. Rubins.

The historical interplay of Appalachia & the US over the past 100 years is explored focusing on how culture, ideology, policy, & values have contributed to the development of the corporate state & its penetration & integration of the region. Henry Shapiro's Appalachia on Our Mind (U of North Carolina Press, 1978) surfaces many of the assumptions & values that underlie the social & public policies binding the nation & the region; early ideological influences on the region seen as a social problem also receive considerable attention. Understanding Appalachia hinges on critical, historical perspectives on US modernization: the liberal tradition, the technological world view, & the politicized economy of the corporate state. The notion that time has stood still in Appalachia (the static image) has deflected or obscured comprehension of the region's particular form of modernization. Modified HA.

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the historical interplay of Appalachia and America over the past hundred years. The focus is on questions of culture and ideology, policy and values as these have been constituted in the development of our "corporate state" and its penetration and integration of the region. A careful examination of Henry Shapiro's Appalachia on our Mind brings to the surface many of the assumptions and values generally underlying the social and public policies binding the nation and the region. Ideological aspects in the genesis of the region as a social problem receive considerable attention. It becomes apparent that understanding Appalachia hinges on critical, historical perspectives on modern America: the liberal tradition, the technological world‐view, and the politicized economy of the corporate state. The notion that "time stood still" in Appalachia (the static image) has developed in ways that deflect or obscure comprehension of the region's particular form of modernization.

Latin Americanists commonly stress the traditional cultural and philosophical differences between the region they study and the United States. A frequent contention holds that such historical contrasts persist to the present. For example, Howard J. Wiarda asserts, "Latin America … remains paternalistic, hierarchical, authoritarian, Catholic, corporate, personalist, and elitist to its core." In contrast, the United States is presumably more egalitarian, Protestant, and impersonal than her southern-hemispheric neighbors.

With the gradual emergence of corporate capital & the technological intensification of industrial production, a "corporate family system" has developed over the past three generations. To overcome the recurrent crises of overproduction & underconsumption that plagued entrepreneurial capital, this new family system has been based on "consummativity," as discussed, in part, by Jean Baudrillard, Antonio Gramsci, & Herbert Marcuse, as part of corporate capital's need to effectively plan & regulate aggregate & specific demand. Such planning, however, assumes weakened private prerogatives in the family, as public sector forces based in the state apparatus & corporate sphere help socialize family members, organize their consumption, & manage their resources to form personalities willing to accept this basically dependent, passive, self-centered lifestyle. Under the corporate capitalist logic of consummativity, family members are discouraged from becoming autonomous producers & citizens, as they are encouraged to accept roles as passive consumers & clients who increasingly become dependent on corporate capital & the state for access to goods & services. Modified AA.