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The rightwing imbecile David Brooks cites the late French Marxist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu as an expert on how "cultural capital" allows one class to dominate another. This is a follow-up to his ridiculous op-ed piece on how he took an old friend who only had a high-school degree to a panini sandwich shop but she felt so intimated by sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” with ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette that he took her to a Mexican restaurant instead.
What's missing from Brooks's think pieces is the real class division in American society--those who own the means of production and those who sell their labor power to survive. People like me with a college degree might have "cultural capital" but we have zero power to shut down a factory or declare war.
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