Carrol wrote:
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Date: 2007/05/31 Thu AM 02:06:42 GMT
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] A gem of a speech from Zoellick on socialists,
> anarchists, and anti-globo protesters
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> The ruling classes of course are class conscious and
> discourage class consciousness among the working
> classes. That's important, and it bears repeating but
> it is not a new idea.
I'll say it's not new -- it goes back at least to the Sophists and Plato!
Carrol *****************
So Karl Popper would say. But why was Plato's name put on Lenin's mausoleum? Marx did not belong to the sophistic tradition. The royalist Hobbes did. Sir Karl was a bourgeois wolf in proletarian sheep's clothing, crying crocodile tears over his prey (mixed metaphor intended -- it makes the image more Disneyesque). Comradely, James
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> >
> > The ruling classes of course are class conscious and
> > discourage class consciousness among the working
> > classes. That's important, and it bears repeating but
> > it is not a new idea.
>
> I'll say it's not new -- it goes back at least to the Sophists and
> Plato!
>
> Carrol
>
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