alex lantsberg wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: lbo-talk
> 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.
Such articles as this _always_ single out a "certain type" -- and NEVER give any indication, not the remotest hint, that this "certain type" might not be exhaustive.
Clearly, the motive behind this fwd post is pure sectarianism rather than any desire to improve left tactics.
Carrol