Karl Marx, misunderstood in America, as the founder of Communism, is the bette noire of Capitalism.
Yet Marxian observations free-float everywhere in such fragmented forms that often they cannot be traced back to the originator.
The Marxian idiom, "All that is solid melts...all that is sacred is profaned...", like Mona Lisa, continues to be wrenched from its context and used to explain things that have little to do with the process of history.
Author Flannery O' Connor had said something like "in capitalism everything that rises must converge."
In his observation on the direction that the Bronx-born hip-hop has taken in recent times, Brent Staples co opts Marx via O'Connor to explain that operating within the ideology of capitalism, hip-hop has now converged with pop thereby losing its edginess.
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