kelley
At 01:53 PM 6/9/03 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Kelley:
> >
> > and why was there an elite who didn't see themselves as part
> > of the working
> > class?
>
>
>Short answer: for the same reason as as a sixteen year old in this
>country does not identify with his old folks but with other "kool" kids
>on the block.
>
>Somewhat longer answer: Eastern European intelligentsia was a 100%
>product of the state socialiost educational policies - basically sons of
>peasants and workers given an opportunity for social climbing that they
>did not have before. The sons and daughters soon became ashamed of
>their illiterate peasant and worker parents - they needed a new class
>identity, and that was conveniently supplied to them by (i) the cultural
>models of "old" intelligentsia that still lived in memories and (ii)
>ever-expanding pop culture and the life styles it promoted.
>
>Wojtek
>
>
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