[lbo-talk] Re: The Black Commentator on Cosby

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jul 6 08:39:48 PDT 2004


Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Not necessarily. If the psychology identified is tied to a social
> position, than it is a form of structural analysis.

Ockham's razor?


> So, the black (or
> any, really) petit bourgeois thinks of him or herself as self-made
> and independent,

Psychological only in the sense that saying 2+2 is also psychological. She has to think she is something, and the real appearance of situation of a petty producer is independent, is it not?


> not reliant on any organization - a grandiose monad,
> and a model for others. That's different from the sense of collective
> struggle connected with mass action.

So again, Ockham's razor. The psychological explanation merely duplicates the social explanation.

Carrol


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