Politicization Then and Now (Re: [lbo-talk] Alito & disability

[Jim Devine]

me:
> > I'd say that the best way to influence the elites is to
> > organize the "underclass." International pressure is all well
> > and good, but it can easily push a country in the _wrong_
> > direction. And where does a progressive  pressure come from?
> > it comes from organizing the "underclasses" in other

On 1/17/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Not usually - "underclasses" (Marx's lumpenproletariat) are often
> apolitical, passive or reactionary.

I assumed you were using the word "underclass" to mean the working
class. But I was wrong.

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Jim Devine
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