[lbo-talk] Origin of "privatization"

[// ravi]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:43 AM, andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The later are useful tools of the former, yes? In this case, apparently, the term was introduced to explain what radical counterrevolutionary conservatives with wealth and power were doing at everyone else's expenses, including those of their deluded supporters in the latter group..
> 

That’s the standard liberal argument, isn’t it? That the wealthy are duping the masses? But is the claim being made (by Wojtek, in quoting Robin) that the latter (vanilla conservatives like my neighbour = VC) hold their views for the same reasons as the former (the radical counterrevolutionaries = RC)? That you say “deluded” makes me think you don’t take that position (that these two groups, VCs and RCs, are identical [in thought]).

	—ravi


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> On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:48 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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>> On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [WS:] Interesting.  Corey Robin's idea of conservatives as radical
>>> counter-revolutionaries fighting for the restoration of wealth and
>>> power inequalities explains that concordance quite well. <snip>
>> 
>> 
>> When you guys write “conservatives” do you mean those with power and influence (Huckabee, O’Reilly, Rove, etc) or my neighbour who rants about Obama’s socialist agenda and the general gay-ness of the modern world?
>> 
>>   —ravi
>>