Re: In defence of Krugman and against Alexander Cockburn: choice oftargets

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

> > ravi:
> > > michael moore when asked about his multi-million dollar new york
> > > apartment responded that his blue-collar ex-neighbours (in clint
> > > michigan) would be proud and happy for him. perhaps.

me: 
> > On the Left, it used to be said that "nothing is too good 
> for the working class." This applied to folks
> > who had escaped that class, too. Absent an immediate 
> revolution, who wouldn't want to escape?

Carrol: 
> Yes and no. There was a phrase among british workers, "bloody 
> jump-ups."

yup. the (partial) escape from the working class also tends to undermine working-
class solidarity (and this isn't the only case where individual interest conflicts with 
class interest). Somewhere in CAPITAL vol. III, Marx writes how capitalism is 
stabilized if it can recruit the best & the brightest from the working class into its
fold.
Jim