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

[Charles Brown]

> 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

^^^^^^^^^^^^
CB: I don't think Bourdieu is correct that those are the two errors of
social analysis. But in any case I make neither error in my statement
above. Small farmers are practically wiped out. That has changed.
They passed on to present generations the ideology of aspiring with
the entrepreneurial spirit to be "independent".

I'm not sure where you are getting evidence of what most workers
thought in the 50's through the 70's ., but I bet a huge percentage of
the working class was hustling , and trying to figure out how to
strike it rich.  All of them in the so-called Black Market were
hustling. The working class fetish for gambling casinos is related to
this.  Individualist ideology was definitely rife, and that's
basically petit bourgeois ideology.