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

[troy cochrane <troyc001@xxxxxxxx>]

One of the titles of a chapter in Michael Moore's new book is "Death to Horatio Alger." His premise is that just the dream of someday becoming rich undermines class solidarity. It really is the all-American dream, the "rags-to-riches" story.

 

Troy

"Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > 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

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