On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:43 AM, michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's not make this personal. > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Jurriaan Bendien > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What is particularly striking is how the super-radical, >> ultra-Marxist/fascist Dr Rakesh Bhandari blames the working class for the >> austerity program, while at the same time rating himself as "working class": >> >> "And that raises the political question of why the more liberal governmental >> program of managing effective demand is giving way to private method. Surely >> part of the answer has to lie in the division and passivity of the American >> working class. Without mass protest we prove ourselves willing to tolerate >> great and troubling levels of human suffering." >> http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/02/berkeley-political-economy-colloquium-february-18-2011-austerity.html >> >> So "we", the workers, have ourselves to blame, because we didn't engage in >> mass protest - the implication being that if there had been mass protest, >> things would have been different. >> >> J. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com >
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