[lbo-talk] Re: ______ and America

[Doug Henwood]

Yeah, I know about the injuries of class. But the U.S. in 2003 is not 
a peasant society, has no active Communist Party sponsoring meetings, 
and is characterized by the willingness of people to go on TV and 
talk about how their grandmother likes having sex with horses, but 
not about their class position. It's a bad and lazy habit to cite 
moments from the revolutionary past like this.

Doug

andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>Ummm, then read Sennett's The Hidden Injuries of Class, now 30 years 
>old, but still recognizable. I think there's actually a lot to be 
>learned from Fanshen, or even older stuff. I'm reading Thucydides 
>now, and finding it very much on point. jks
>
>Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>I would suggest as a tonic here the chapters in _Fanshen_ in which
>>Hinton details the frustration felt by the CPC group in Longbow at their
>>inability to get any of the peasants to stand up in an open meeting and
>>give evidence of the injuries they had suffered.
>
>And how is that relevant to life in the United States in 2003?
>
>Doug
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