[lbo-talk] Working-Class Fragmentation

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Jun 23 13:52:14 PDT 2010


take hear though. you happen to be considered, far and wide, as THE left royalty in the united states. fuck trying to change hearts and minds and convince anyone; cash in man.

shag


> On Jun 23, 2010, at 2:10 PM, turbulo at aol.com quoted:
>
>> “At the pinnacle is the financial sphere and its major players, but
>> all that is quite abstract. You can’t demonstrate against an
>> abstraction,” explains the sociologist Alain Mergier.
>
> It's complex in the details, but not in the power relations: the
> financial system is about the construction and exercise of ownership
> and control by a possessing class. The left does no one any favors
> when it speaks of finance as detached, otherworldly, epiphenomenal, or
> anything like that.
>
> Excuse my personal pique, but I find it endlessly exasperating that I
> wrote a book about this shit, published 13 years ago by the leading
> left house in the English-speaking world and now available everywhere
> for free download, yet my analysis has had almost no visible effect on
> left discourse.
>
> Doug



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