[lbo-talk] Slavoj iek . The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat

[shag carpet bomb]

it's interesting that robin's text erases the 10s of 1000s of class and 
ethnic outsiders who revolted in the first place and, instead, zeroesn you 
in on the single theorist outsider (Hobbes, Berlin, etc.) who provide the 
words and theories around which reactionaries rally their cause.

At 12:11 AM 1/26/2012, Somebody Somebody wrote:


>Would the capitalists respond as harshly to working class kids going out 
>to organize and support them? Well, no, because that's essentially been 
>the modus operandi of the bourgeoisie ever since the French Revolution. 
>Corey Robin's entire book is based upon the concept of outsiders in terms 
>of class and ethnicity becoming stalwart defenders of reaction.
>
>To me, the fact that workers and the poor bristle so easily at attempts at 
>organizing them is simply further evidence of the fact that they're poor 
>material for leading a revolution.
>
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