On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Mark Rickling wrote:
>> The word is kind of useless - you can plug just about anything into it. The basic mechanism is dividing society into good guys and bad guys - producers and parasites, industry and finance, the People and elites, whatever.
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>> Doug
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> Yet somehow you never seem to see modes of thought or movements that
> employ the terms "capitalist" and "worker" derided as populist
No, because there's a lot more precision to the names. Yeah, there are some blurry areas, but workers live from paycheck to paycheck and rarely give orders on the job. Capitalists employ workers and, if they're of any consequence, have substantial resources to their name. Populists often want to throw small business owners in with The People, when they're at best one of those blurry areas.
Doug