[lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich

[Dennis Claxton]

At 06:42 AM 8/12/2009, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> > Christian Parenti argues that the ruling class was scared
> > shitless by the wave of '60s riots and by no means
> > considered the threat negligible.  And if it isn't
> > initially clear what "groups of people" Reagan is referring
> > to, he clarifies it with his reference to "a long hot
> > summer."
> >
>
>[WS:]  It is just an opinion, one that I happen to disagree with.

It's not just an opinion.  He connects it to the ruling class 
response of billions, and counting, poured into law 
enforcement.  That didn't just happen.


>Of course, you and others can believe in the revolutionary potential 
>of the poor and the threat their pose to the US institutional order 
>- just as I disbelieve it.

This is your strawperson and not what this discussion has been about.