>Dear List:
>
>Carrol wrote:
>
>> The working class constitutes somewhere between 85% & 90% of the
>>population. In so far as there are variations in culture within the
>>population there are nearly the same variations of culture within
>>the working class. Hence comments on "culture" _or_ on "personal
>>experience" are intrinsically counter-productive from a progressive
>>viewpoint, since the tendency of such comments is to divide the
>>working class against itself in theory and hence contribute to its
>>fragmentation in practice.
>
>While I would agree that the great majority of the population is
>working class, I do not see how comments can be intinsically
>anything. They are comments and do not have an essence.
You don't understand: generalizations are bad unless they're made by Cde Cox, in which case they have the force of law.
Doug