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Re: [Pen-l] Obama remarks
- To: "Progressive Economics" <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Obama remarks
- From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:54:41 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, David B. Shemano <dshemano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Serious question regarding the Obama remarks regarding guns and religion. I think it is hard to dispute that there is a general right/left dispute over gun ownership, but why? Is there something in Marxism that speaks to gun ownership? Is there a relevance of gun ownership to economic class? I really have a hard time conceptualizing why there is such a strong correlation between opposition to gun ownership and other left-wing views.
Gun ownership is an _expression_ of robust individualism. You want to own guns because you don't trust your community to take care of you or even not to harm you.
I don't think there is a class aspect to this so much as ideology. So even working class men (do women own a lots of guns?) who buy into the individualist ideology may favor gun ownership.
Of course individualist ideology is extremely convenient to capitalists..
-raghu.
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- Thread context:
- [Pen-l] Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear,
raghu Wed 16 Apr 2008, 17:52 GMT
- [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
Jim Devine Wed 16 Apr 2008, 16:11 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
David B. Shemano Thu 17 Apr 2008, 00:22 GMT
- RE: [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
Louis Proyect Thu 17 Apr 2008, 00:36 GMT
- Re: [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
raghu Thu 17 Apr 2008, 00:40 GMT
- Re: [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
Chris Finn Thu 17 Apr 2008, 01:05 GMT
- Re: [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
Sean Andrews Thu 17 Apr 2008, 03:46 GMT
- Re: [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
Jim Devine Thu 17 Apr 2008, 13:17 GMT
- [Pen-l] Obama remarks,
Charles Brown Thu 17 Apr 2008, 16:22 GMT
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