life among the pre-rich

[alex lantsberg]

but brooks also mentions something about the american ideal of equal
opportunity and fair play, which is a major opening for organizing work.
this seems self--evident, but can't many of the leftier policy proposals be
framed as a way to expand and ensure opportunity?

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[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re:life among the pre-rich

    George McGovern, after his defeat in '72 was at the check out stand at
a grocery store in South Dakota. Poor white woman buying her food with the
food stamps that McGovern and Bob Dole had written the bill for originally
telling George why she voted for Nixon. His "soak the rich" tax plan would
have hurt her children once they became taxpayers. She said they would
become millionaires. If he'd been a certain type of academic marxist he'd
have berated her for her, "false consciousness." Which it was, of coarse.

   "False Consciousness, " by Joseph Gabel, Harper & Row, early 70's. Ron
Eyerman also has written about it, as has Russell Jacoby, on the false
consciousness of Althusser and Bettelheim on the GPCR in a chapter of his,
"Dialectic of Defeat, " Cambridge Univ. Press, preface by Christopher
Lasch.
--
Michael Pugliese

I got an axe-handle pistol
with a graveyard frame.
It shoots tombstone bullets
wearing balls and chains.
I'm drinking TNT.
I'm smokin' dynamite.
I hope some screwball
start's a fight,
'cause I'm ready,
ready,
ready

Muddy Waters, "I'm Ready."