[lbo-talk] Re: war propaganda

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:16 PM -0800 4/4/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
>>>  >Carrol stated that psychological factors are like the cries of the
>>>  >drowning, which do not cause him to drown. You state that
>>>  >psychological factors are always dependent variables, never
>>>  >explanatory, merely explanans. I stand by my claim. jks
>>
>>Sure, but I don't recall saying that "class interests," considered as
>>merely economic interests, are direct determinants of the
>>"psycho-sexual" matters, perhaps with the exception of my restatement
>>of Luker's explanation of the rise of anti-abortion ideology in the
>>late-nineteenth century (she attributes it to male medical doctors'
>>attempt at professionalization of medicine).
>
>So you say that in one of the two concrete cases where you discussed 
>thi, you accepted as plausible the absurd belief that class 
>interests operate directly to explain behavior without psychological 
>mediation.

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean.  Are you saying that you 
find Luker's explanation of the origin of anti-abortion ideology 
absurd?  BTW, Luker's case describes not so much class interests as 
male-dominated trade interests.
-- 
Yoshie

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