On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:36 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
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> I didn't think the book was horrible. I just thought it was a weird book
> directed at leftists who have been making the same criticisms for years now.
> Who was the audience? He kept writing as if there was some wide swath of
> leftists who don't get this.
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> I think he was talking to non-leftists in the universities, who he is
> admonishing to understand that class is not merely an "identity" -- its mode
> of oppression doesn't at all operate the way race, gender, disability, etc.
> do -- But these people never have and never will care about class from a
> leftist perspective.
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