[lbo-talk] Ehrenreich responds to BDL

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Aug 19 08:51:41 PDT 2003



> >Barbara Ehrenreich, wrote:
> >> >crypto-Christian gesture on my part... As for those who "help"
> >> >immigrant women by giving them jobs: If the idea is to help, why
not
> > > >just give them the money and do the housework yourself?
>

Evidently, Ms. Ehrenreich has a very patrician, if not aristocratic, notion of help as a charitable handout. How about a more social-democratic concept of self- and mutual- help and cooperativism?

Wojtek



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