On Apr 26, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> anyone who has had the experience of that relationship 'understands' labor. Because of the variations in the relations, not all people who have had the experience understand labor in the same way, but they all have an understanding of 'labor'.
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> That's all kind of spongy isn't it?
Perhaps, but the slicing and dicing that goes on with definitions doesn't seem to serve the interest of building the 'movement', of understanding what's going on or what is to be done. It seems to serve academic interests and academic credential building.
I'm neither anti-academic or anti-intellectual, and I don't 'get' the defensive posturing.
martin