[lbo-talk] mass dementia

[Eric Beck]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>  An important theme of US elite propaganda - going back in fact to the 18th
> century - is the inculcation of contempt for the unwashed majority on the
> part of the political class (today roughly the 20% of the population who've
> been to "a good college"). And the growth among the majority of the
> suspicion that Obama is a Muslim is a confused but accurate recognition that
> he's not working for them - so he must be working for someone else.
> Unfortunately the class language that's necessary to explain the real
> situation has been excluded from political discourse.

Vulgar Marxism just doesn't get more vulgar that this. In
Estabrookworld, race and religion are not even epiphenomenal or
superstructural.