Nader

[Alex LoCascio]

Indeed, p-b is far more useful than the broader "bourgeois" in terms of
description, but the Sparts and other Trot-cults have a tendency to use it
as a synonym for "someone that we disagree with."

You see The Onion headline about the Russian Revolution?  The headline reads
something like "Brooding Coffeehouse types Seize Power in Russia," with a
quote from Lenin saying "the ruling class opresses the proletariat.  They
are sooo bourgeois."

Me, I'm one of those new class bureaucrats riding the wave of a  workers
movement that Burnham, Shachtman, and Chomsky warned you about.  Time to go
police the working class on behalf of the bourgeoisie...

(Although Jim Cannon called Burnham and Shachtman petit-bourgeois.  I'm sooo
confused...)

------Original Message------
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: June 27, 2000 9:10:20 PM GMT
Subject: Re: Nader

Alex LoCascio wrote:


>Yup, but a lot of anarchoids seem to cavalierly throw the term around.
>
>To be fair, a lot of Trotskyists are also prone to denouncing each other as
>"petit-bourgeois."

I'm not a Trot, nor do I play one on TV, but I use the term petit
bourgeois. I think it's very useful. Ralph Nader is p-b. The
International Forum on Globalization is p-b. Objectively speaking,
I'm p-b.

Doug

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