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 > >
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