[lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading

[Michael Hoover]

On 10/10/06, Jesse Lemisch <utopia1 at attglobal.net> wrote:
> continuing the discussion of Hofstadter, the point of
> Rogin et al is that the orgins of "McCarthyism" (note the quotation marks)
> were not with what you call the "toiling masses."
> Jesse Lemisch
> >Much of what we call "the grassroots"
> > in American politics isn't made up of the toiling masses - it's local
> > worthies, like small-town bankers, real-estate brokers, lawyers,
> > doctors, etc. Those are elites relative to the working class, but
> > next to a CEO or hedge fund manager, they're punks.
> > Doug

richard hamilton's decidedly non-marxist 1972 _class and politics in
the united states_ notes (citing polling data) that mccarthy's
electoral support did not come from the working class... mh