European Unions

John Lacny jplst15+ at pitt.edu
Sun Apr 8 19:54:22 PDT 2001


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:


>So lemme see. Trying to understand how the system of money & credit
>works is "crap," because it cannot be easily explained to the
>proverbial cleaning woman (who is presumed to be an ignoramus). So
>the hierarchies of capitalist society, in which technical and
>cultural education is reserved for the few, and anti-intellectualism
>assumed to prevail among the rest, are now accepted as a norm for
>radical anti-capitalists?

Doug has it exactly right. I've always thought that contempt for the intelligence of the average person was the corollary to anti-intellectualism.

John Lacny



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