Re: arugula

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 2:19 AM 8/27/95, Valerie Scatamburlo wrote:

>I wasn't going to say anything about this, but as an Italian, I can no longer
>keep silent.  Radicchio originates from the Veneto region of Italy and more
>specifically the areas around Treviso.  Now, it may be true that radichhio
>has become yuppified in recent years, but I was raised on it and there's
>nothing bourgeosie about it.

And what if there *were* something bourgeois about it? When Marx talked
about the civilizing effects of capital, he was talking in large part about
bourgeois culture and science. Of course what made him a revolutionary and
not an apologist was that he thought this "civilizing" effect was highly
distorted and rested on exploitation of masses who were partly de-civilized
in the process. But just because something is bourgeois doesn't mean it's
bad - it has to be analyzed critically. I still give thanks for my
hyper-bourgeois education at Yale; taught me to hate the ruling class more
effectively. But boneheaded solidarity with working class culture ain't for
me.

Doug

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