privatizing water (Re Kenneth Burke)

[Michael Pollak]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > This is analogous to Kenneth Burke's argument that official rhetoric
> > is always tended to counterbalance the real policy. He says that as
> > soon as Roosevelt made a speech attacking "Economic Royalists"
> > he knew the banking interests were safe, because if Roosevelt
> > had really intended to attack such a major capitalist institution he
> > would have done so under the cover of pro-banker rhetoric.


> Wonderful notion.  Where did he discuss that?

Grammar of Motives, p. 393.

Michael

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