[lbo-talk] 'The Reactionary Mind': An Exchange

[Carrol Cox]

shag carpet bomb:
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i was responding to his own words which is that he is the one saying that 
he shows why lower orders join conservatives:

"I show that the lower orders ****often join****, and have good reason to
join, the 
conservative cause: in fending off a democratic movement from below, 
conservatism gives them a taste of lordly power they otherwise would not 
enjoy."

****often join**

In other words, they often do NOT join. Hence no explanation focusing only
on one phenomenon is of any interest. An explanation is needed for _both_
phenomena.

Also: That X occurs often does not in itself establish that X exists. That
is, we may well have a series of historical events each of which requires
_separate_ explanation, and the attempt to see them as a coherent category,
all falling under the same explanation, is chasing an illusion.

Carrol