[lbo-talk] Class as Identnity Politics was Re: in which ...reptilian brain

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu May 15 12:36:52 PDT 2008


Yet you have this thing about how all capitalisms are the same.

--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
> We categorize for different reasons in different
> contexts, and our
> categories vary accordingly. The context here is
> when, by knowing the
> category, we also no the individual entities that
> make up the category.
> If you tell me, "P is a bumblebee," I know a great
> deal about P without
> examining it. If you tell me "P is a worker" or "P
> is a grad student" or
> "P is an evangelical" or even "P is a woman" or "P
> is a Latino" you
> haven't really told me very much, concretely, about
> this particular P.

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