[lbo-talk] Re: keynesian elitism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 1 12:19:24 PDT 2004


frank scott wrote:


>"...How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish,
>exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the
>intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and
>surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?..."
>
>no wonder so many progressives (formerly liberals, before rebranding) -
>love this guy...

Oh, there's more where that came from!

"I do not mean that Russian Communism alters, or even seeks to alter, human nature, that it makes Jews less avaricious or Russians less extravagant than they were before."

"[Workers are] boorish [though] not as ugly as they might be."

But, on the other hand, there's a lot that's valuable in his work - even if he was a terminal snob.

Doug



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