Problems of Functionalism

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Fri Mar 16 05:15:20 PST 2001


On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:49:06 -0000 "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> The autobiographical parts are interesting. The main arguments about
> why
> he's given up on revolutionary socialism and the working class are
> so awful
> it is hard to imagine the Gerry Cohen of old allowing his students
> to
> commmit them. Thus: the proletariat, i.e., the blue collar
> industrial
> working class, is not the majority in any modern industrialized
> society, so
> Marx is washed up. I am not kidding. This is is his argument. --jks
>

I guess the glittering spires of Oxford have gotten to him.

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