[lbo-talk] Re: class clothing

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 26 08:04:33 PDT 2005


Marvin Gandall wrote:


>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>I am astounded at the sheer tackiness at pretending to know the
>inner motives and daily behavior of several hundred million
>strangers!
>
>Sheer vulgarity.
>
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>
>You, I, all of us, generalize about politics, economics, culture all
>the time, no?

I'm waiting for an explanation of why a generalization like this is ok:

At 12:59 PM -0600 12/31/04, Carrol Cox wrote:


>the total culture of the u.s. working class, i.e. the total
>culture of somewhere between 80% and 90+% of the population.

"Total" no less!

Doug



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