[lbo-talk] Middle School Yearbook, scandal?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jun 7 06:59:08 PDT 2011


The students had absorbed one of the major elements of bourgeois ideology: that history consists of good people and bad people.

And a large proportion of the comments on various aspects of capitalism on this list consist in such moral judgments. And that, in turn, makes it very difficult to theorize responses to the ills described. One result of that is a pervasive separation of act and motive, theory and practice. Politics disappears.

Carrol

On 6/6/2011 8:09 PM, Mark Bennett wrote:
> A similar thing happened in '75, and Richard Nixon was selected the 2nd
> worst person history, behind you-know-who.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Sandy Harris<sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Chuck Grimes<c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>> A list of the worst people of all time in a middle school yearbook has
>>> sparked a furious debate in the state of Arkansas.
>>>
>>> Printed on a page in the yearbook of Russellville Middle School is a
>>>
>> list, a
>>
>>> list ranking the 5 worst people of all time. Topping the list was Adolf
>>> Hitler, followed by Osama Bin Laden, Charles Manson, George W. Bush and
>>>
>> Dick
>>
>>> Cheney.
>>>
>> They don't teach history very well. The list is "of all time"
>> but everyone on it is late 20th century. Even then,
>> they missed Pol Pot.
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