Carrol Cox wrote: > Probably the single greatest achievement of Occupy has been to popularize > and give content to the metaphor of "The 1%." That allows the coinage of so > many agitational slogans that would otherwise be so difficult to formulate. > All one has to do is stick The 1% in a brief phrase and you have made much > of your argument before you even complete the phrase. For example: > > Resist The 1% attack on Democracy! > > Defend our homes against The 1%. > > Stop the War Making of The 1%.
while this makes total sense, the problem with the phrase "the 1 %" is that it focuses on only the elite part of the ruling class rather than that class as a whole, while missing the role of the social structure that defines capitalism. -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
