[lbo-talk] Blog Post. The Road Beckons: Excerpt from Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate

[Wojtek S]

Doug: "I'm sure you realize that far more of the population lives in urban
areas than don't, yet the non-urbans are still considered more authentic,
and not just by Sarah Palin."

[WS:] This trope of 'authenticity of the rural folk' was a centerpiece of
Stalinist propaganda in Eastern Europe and Russia.  Milan Kundera's novel
"The Joke" is built around that theme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joke_(novel)

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."