AUT: "classism"

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald wrote:
>Many in the "U.S. scene" appear to be opposed to something they call
"classism".
   Leave it to us Yankees to elide(?) the class domination and exploitation
inherent in capitalism, to an attitudinal difference amenable
to PC "happy talk" tactics. In my experience,
progressives from upper-middle class backgrounds here, are more likely to
try to assert
their moral bona fides by a recourse to a discourse saturated with a
pointless guilt going
to buttress a facile non-strategy. Bad enough when priviledged white folk
put this over, but
when well off "people of color" pull the "classist" line my eyes roll
over.(BTW, my grandmother
still says "colored people" how much progress
was made before this PC term was appropriated
from the New Left by Corporate Diversity consultants, and how much after?
Rhetorical
question, you say? Well when the material and political ground is forsaken
for this "safer" approach all ?'s decend to the rhetorical.
    All this makes me sound like a unreconstructed Old Left orthodox
Marxist, before Gramsci and Lacan and the deconstructionists highlighted
ideology and its role in supporting the power of the dominant class, but for
now so be it.
                                 Michael Pugliese




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