[lbo-talk] Venezuela

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Thu Oct 11 20:18:31 PDT 2007


At 8:08 AM -0400 11/10/07, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Generally speaking, both populist and socialist leaders often come
>from the petit-bourgeois class (such as lawyers, military officers,
>medical doctors, and so on, and nowadays clerics also). That is so
>because leaders of revolution, be it a war of position or a war of
>maneuver, must be intellectuals, whether they are formally or
>informally educated. This won't change until the working class get
>better educated.

But when the working class get better educated, you call them "petit bourgeois"... Its catch-22.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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