[lbo-talk] vox populi: standardize testing

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 19 13:46:56 PDT 2012


On May 19, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> On 5/19/2012 7:29 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> the more "we" (who in the hell_is_ this "we" that keeps popping up)
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> and
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>> Trust the People
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> "We" and "the People" are not the same thing?

"We" can have a definite referent. The People is an abstraction. Carrol apparently prefers the latter, presumably because Mao did.

Doug



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