[lbo-talk] Reception Theory

[Dmytri Kleiner]

Dennis Redmond wrote:
> DK wrote:
> 
>> Always interesting to see the reaction of academics to working class
>> organizers
> 
> We academics don't need lectures about the working-class. We *are* the
> working-class. We work for a living, have tons of debt, don't own the
> means of production, etc. The point should be to create solidarity between
> all working people, instead of moralistically blaming sections of the
> working-class for the actions of ruling elites.

I agree with all this, BTW.

I am not blaming anyone, please review what I actually wrote. I am 
reacting to what I perceive as condescending bluffing, not in anyway 
disassociating academics from the working-class.

My point is not that academics are bourgeois, nor is my pointm by the 
way, that Institutional Analysis is uninteresting or not useful.

My point is that it is avoidance to essentially ignore my entire 
argument by calling it "meaningless kvetching" and then go on to imply 
that an entirely different line of inquiry ("Institutional Analysys") is 
the One True Way (tm), and those who concern ourselves with political 
economy are essentially wasting our time.

-- 
Dmytri Kleiner, robotnik
Telekommunisten, Berlin.

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