[lbo-talk] What crap

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Sep 30 16:52:36 PDT 2004


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Mike Ballard wrote:


> The authoritarian personality character structure also
> includes automatomism. Indifference and what Arendt
> identified nicely as "the banality of evil" are
> intertwined.
>
> socialist greetings,
> Mike B)

No, this completely misses the point! Obedience to authority is typical of most people, not just people with "authoritarian" personalities. (Milgram found that personality traits did not help him predict who would obey and who would not.)

(Just another knee in the groin of the cult of personality--)

Miles



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list