[PEN-L:3899] Re: elitism

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:
>It is because I put so much emphasis on theoretical reflection that
>I am engaged in my present campaign of everyone on these lists
>who engages in poisoning the wells of discourse by substituting
>empty labels like "elitist" or "pomo" for the description, naming,
>and critique of concrete positions. (To call such procedures
>"generalizations" is as misleading as calling cyanide "merely
>a chemical." True, but the excuse of a scoundrel.)

what's wrong with the term "elitist"? Elitism (unlike, say, PoMoism) has a
clear meaning: the elite is better than the rest, deserves to get a lion's
share of the goodies, deserves to rule, etc.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html