[lbo-talk] Fwd: Noam goes with Barry ?

[Joseph Catron]

I see Marv's implicit claim here - that rejectionism, or purism, or
principle, or whatever you want to call it, is primarily the domain of
Richie and Whitie - bandied about quite a bit. It doesn't match my
experience at all (homeless people in New York seem far quicker to say
"Screw 'em all!" than their wealthier, typically paler neighbors), but of
course anecdotal impressions are usually crap. Levels of voter turnout by
income would obviously seem to favor my approach, but does either one have
any other empirical evidence going for it?

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote:

The question, of course, is whether the "small differences" between Obama
> and a (chastened) second term Bush administration or a Romney
> administration have "large effects". Depends on your standpoint. If you're
> poor and powerless, non-white, or have liberal rather than conservative
> social values, you'd be inclined to agree. If you're in politics to
> fundamentally transform the system of power and property relations, you'd
> say the differences are entirely inconsequential.
>

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