On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Marv Gandall quoted Perry Anderson:
> For the root determinant of this tradition was its formation by
> defeat – the long decades of set-back and stagnation, many of them
> terrible ones in any historical perspective, undergone by the
> Western working class after 1920.
"Perry is afraid of the working class. They might scuff his floors." - someone who's known him for decades