It may be at odds with socialist doctrines, but it works rather well as a protest statement against bourgeois respectability. Nothing makes a stuffed bourgeois shirt more uncomfortable than the presence of "those people" - and when he hears that 'those people" are respectable, it doubles his discomfort.
Wojtek
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
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> > What values undergird your position, Carrol
>
> My theory is that, from all my years of reading CC, he believes that one
> should never accuse the masses of embodying any social pathologies. That
> would be to deflect attention and blame from the ruling class (though
> blaming a class does imply a bit more agency than CC seems to be comfortable
> with). But if you believe that the masses contract no pathologies, I wonder
> why you'd be a socialist.
>
> Doug
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