[lbo-talk] class warfare

[B.]

I don't like Franken's quote because it concedes the
right-wing article of faith that class war is
something poor folks do to the rich. Rich people
started the class war and they wage it every day
against the rest of us.

B

Michael Dawson wrote:


> Great Tuchman story, but, as usual, Franken's
conclusion is dead wrong.
> Arguing about tax breaks for the rich is indeed
class warfare.


> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org
[mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> > On Behalf Of snit snat
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:55 AM
> > To: Lame Brained Onanists
> > Subject: [lbo-talk] class warfare
> > 
> > on another list, someone's been using a line from
Al Franken for her sig:
> > 
> > 
> > "In her book *A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous
Fourteenth Century*,
> > Barbara
> > Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that
began in the village of
> > St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise valley.  At
one estate, the serfs
> > sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and
> > roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and
kids.  Then, after ten or
> > twelve peasants violated the lady, with the
children still watching, they
> > forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband
and then killed her.
> > 
> > *That* is class warfare.
> > 
> > Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the
top one percent is
> > not."

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"I'm not too worried by hegemony / I know the cadre will look after me" - Magazine, "Model Worker," 1978