Re: Solidarity and Class (Was Re: Taibbi )
On Jun 16, 2007, at 1:17 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
I hope people have read Doug’s brilliant preliminary essay on the ruling class in the new LBO,
Thank you!
but it makes utter nonsense of the behavior of the working class. The fact is that whatever the defects of the finer points of Thomas Franks’ What’s The Matter With Kansas?, he’s got a crucial point that American workers do not conceive themselves as narrow economic maximizers and don’t act in what Marxists (or for that matter neoclasscists) would predict would be in their “best economic interests.”
No, they don’t, but Tom F subscribes to the race/sex/sexuality as
distraction line - they’re diversions from the real issues. He’s
somewhere between indifferent and hostile to anyone who brings up
“identity” concerns. It’s not clear what he thinks can be done about
this - maybe the sequel will do the job - except maybe hope the Dems
start talking about class “again,” which strikes me as a delusional
hope.
Doug