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> On Behalf Of Wojtek Sokolowski
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:23 PM
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> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Why Jews Hate Republicans, Part XVIV
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> John Lacny:
> > . . . and no listing of CLASS as an explanatory factor.
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> > Sorry to be the old Marxist curmudgeon, but class analysis does indeed
> count
> > for something. Despite the large numbers of working-class whites (since
> > race -- in this country such an important element of class -- is also a
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> Class is too broad of a concept to be of much analytical use. I prefer
> much
> smaller and better defined social groups. Observe that many groups, from
> organized religion, to unions, and civil society groups vie for and get
> the
> attention of people who support themselves for selling their labor. What
> is
> more, the type of work matters - professional workers have different
> affinities than manual or service workers, etc.
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> The genius of class notion in Marx's analysis was that it pointed to the
> notion of objectively defined social group (i.e. introduced the meso-level
> of analysis) in the theoretical landscape that saw only individuals
> (micro-level) and nations (macro-level). But today we can do a much more
> refined meso-level analysis, so jettisoning the concept of class is not
> the
> rejection of the social group influence. In fact I identified many such
> influences of various types.
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> Wojtek
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