[lbo-talk] “It provokes screams from the left”

Dennis Redmond metalslorg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 14:05:16 PDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
>
>> I think you have to accept that or
>> accept that he really does want to cut MC and SS.
>
> He does. It's the elite consensus, and he represents nothing if not elite
> consensus.

Speaking of elites, from this point on, I've decided to use the term "plutocrat" to talk to the general public about US neoliberal elites. "Elite" is too generic, "oligarch" is too personal, "bankster" too specialized.

But "plutocrat" is perfect. It's sociologically accurate, yet sounds like the scientific name for a species of tapeworm. It also has that inexpressibly appropriate decline-and-fall-of-the-Roman-Empire ring to it.

-- DRR



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