But I'm pissed. They complain. Or not. But they don't vote. They won't. They are obsessed with sports. Why? Maybe because it's a common language?
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
>
> > I am amazed at how shocked you are that antioch
> types are
> > scoffed at! Perhaps a little unfairly, but, here
> we are- its the
> > world we
> > live in. You gotta get with it to get with it.
>
> I'm not shocked. I've lived in this world a pretty
> long time. But you
> seem to think there's some wisdom in the position. I
> don't. It's a
> right-wing impulse - to focus class resentment on
> liberals and
> intellectuals. (And this impulse isn't even
> fact-based: Dennis
> Redmond has said several times that Antioch isn't
> really a bastion of
> rich hippies.) In the American case, Lenin was wrong
> - the
> spontaneous consciousness of our working class is a
> laugh at the
> fancy-pants consciousness. It hasn't served them
> very well, has it?
>
> Doug
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