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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 3 20:50:31 PST 2012


On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> To go back to what bothered me in the first place.
>
> "The Reactionary Mind" is a non-entity. It's dreamed up by someone to
> justify maundering on for a while. Define it. Point to the evidence that THE
> reactionary mind exists. Is a Jungian archetype or something, collective
> unconscious. We really are in a never-never land where the absurd premise
> operates that if you can coin a phrase something in the world obviously
> corresponds to it and must be explained.

Good thing you didn't waste any time on reading the book!



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