Seriously, forgetting about the exceptions, how to you know what the average is? Did anybody do some survey on this?
I work with people from the left and I have no idea whether or not "they embrace top-down solutions . . . blah blah blah." On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > me: >>> This is absolutely right. There are people from all sorts of social >>> movements who have been (1) separated from their movement, their >>> "roots"; and then (2) absorbed into state and/or capitalist >>> bureaucracies. This (3) leads them to embrace top-down solutions to >>> every problem (environmental, social, economic) rather than relying on >>> the collective and democratic mobilization of workers, ethnic >>> minorities, women, students, or whoever it was that had been their >>> base. > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bollocks. >> >> Sometimes a job is just a job. > > that's right. I was talking about statistical averages: sociological > processes that change people's perspectives and motivations work on > average but there are always exceptions. Or you could say that these > processes have these effects "holding all else constant." > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
