[lbo-talk] Against Neoliberalismby Michael Dawson, former LBO-ta lk list member

Arthur Maisel arthurmaisel at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 07:32:47 PST 2014


Looks like an interesting article:

http://ptw.uchicago.edu/Dilts10.pdf

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Charles Brown:
>
> > Americans have had an unusually large mass of people with petit
> > bourgeois personality or embued with the "entrepreneurial spirit"
> > since the start. See the last chapter of _Capital_. Many many farmers
> > who have small plots of land, own their means of production, and are
> > petty producers, potential capitalists.
>
> Yes. But as Bourdieu said, the two errors of social analysis are, on the
> one hand, saying "Everything's changed!," and on the other, "Nothing's
> changed!" Most ordinary workers in the Golden Age, from the 1950s through
> the 1970s, didn't think of themselves as little entrepreneurs of the self.
> Now they do.
>
> Doug
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