[lbo-talk] of actors and politicians

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Oct 3 13:10:13 PDT 2008


Chris Doss wrote:
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> It's peasant provincialness, is what it is. As old as humanity.

But we're ot dealig with peasats. We're dealig with suburba 'middle class.' They just daydream aboaut a mythical "small town life" but they work & live in metropolitan areas of 100k to several million populatio.

Besides, you obviously don't know as much as you should about the Athenian peasantry 550-300 bce. You can't generalize this glibly even about real peasants, let alone peasants that don't exist except in your fantasy.

Carrol



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