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> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> That progressive change is being thwarted by some kind of external
>> malevolent force (the elusive and all-powerful The Man) is kind of a dogma.
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> Would you be happier with Domhoff's neo-Weberian interlocking networks of
> cultural, economic and political elites melded with Lukes' three dimensions
> of power seen through social psychoanalytic takes on socialization,
> internalization and self-surveillance? The Man, while admittedly populist
> and non-specific is shorthand... for most folks here my assumption is that
> shorthand is shorthand, not an indication of their being a dogmatic
> simpleton.
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BTW: The Domhoff, Lukes, Foucault thing above isn't even my position -
though its taught me some stuff - but my students grok it in ways they
refuse/resist when its presented in more Marxist terms...
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