[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 29 17:40:25 PDT 2007


On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> I think I located the key in my response to Dennis Perrin: It is the
> virus of radical indivualism that grounds capitalist ideology and
> isolates intellectuals in their own little bubbles where they can sit
> and sneer at everyone for not having exactly their own perspective on
> everything.

Besides, I don't get why the intellectual pathologies of capitalism should affect only critical intellectuals - why not scores of millions of kids too?

Doug



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