Re: arugula

["Valerie Scatamburlo" <valeries@xxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 27, 12:42pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Subject: Re: arugula
> At 2:19 AM 8/27/95, Valerie Scatamburlo wrote:
>
 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.
Doug wrote:>

> 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 agree, I was merely responding to the suggestions by some on the list that
eating radichhio or aragula is somehow inherently a bourgeoiw activity which
is rather absurd. 8-)
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