Is archaeology intrinsically anti capitalist?
think it should be politically/ideologically neutral, but history has shown us
it can/has been subverted by fascist/nationalistic/stalinistic and just about
any other ideology - maybe more anti-capitalistic in england where your circuit
diggers tend to be into fairly alternate lifestyles and so on anyway, but...
"intrinsically" in this sense is too great a leap
>
> Bearing in mind that we are attempting to divert funds from money making
> projects by capitalists to pay for something which 90 per cent of it is
> worthless in capitalist terms (ie wont have a enough resale value to merit
> the investment).
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we just haven't taught the bastards how to profit from the reports, etc., they
should be paying us to write, the same way they "benefit" by supporting the
opera and other cultural events, environmental impact mitigation, etc.
> Also, we use various measures to regulate the market (indirectly through PPgs
> etc), and attempt to conserve resources instead of exploiting them for cash.
>
ever been to, say, flag fen?
> This all seems to say yes to the above question.
>
NO
> BUT archaeology is involved in capitalism via competitive tendering (though
> begrudgingly judging by the various grumbles about this), which suggests
> maybe not to the above question.
>
>
geoff carver
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