On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:22:37PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > frank theriault wrote: > > > > Do you know many socialists? I do. While it's true that there are > > many academics and students are attracted to socialism, in my past > > experience of being a member of an organized party, most of the > > members are of the so-called working-class. > > > > cheers, > > frank > > > > > They split both ways, and the crossover seems minimal. There's Academic > and Government types, and the working class types and the two don't mix > well. > > Those who've dealt a lot with the first kind of socialist tend to end up > libertarians of some sort (from the small-government conservatives > through the L. Neil Nutbars). The second kind tend to be great people, > the ones you wish actually ended up in government.
That's still far too much of a generalisation. I'm sure you'd consider my wife a socialist - the daughter of two Labour politicians (one of whom was towards the left wing of the Labour party). But while there is a definite working-class background (coal mining for several previous generations) they were both definitely on the Academic (teaching) and Government (county and city council) side of things. That never seemed to stop them mixing with the working class socialists. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
