[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[C. G. Estabrook]

It's supposed to be different here. Instead, we have our own version of la 
trahison des clercs, which serves to discourage any dangerous democratic 
tendencies.  --CGE

Joanna wrote:
> Estabrook writes
> 
> A good illustration of an important but occluded fact of political life in
> the US: the political class -- roughly, the 20% of the population who 
> attended good colleges -- are taught to despise the 80% (as "dumb people who
> believe in superstitious nonsense"), with whom their interests in fact
> coincide. Instead, they're taught to identify with that small fraction of 1%
> who actually own the country, whose interests are opposed to those of the
> vast majority.  --CGE
> 
> And this is different in other countries?
> 
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