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He says he doesn't want to come across as some kind of class-war warrior, but I think this is his future fate, at least until he writes another kind of book. F
by ggm 2y ago
He says he doesn't want to come across as some kind of class-war warrior, but I think this is his future fate, at least until he writes another kind of book.
Fitzgerald married into wealth. Parker was born into the fringes.
- 9283409232 2y agoI don't know why people are so shaky about calling the class war what it is. I remember this being a big issue during the Obama era, Republicans accusing his proposal to raise taxes as "class warfare". It's like Warren Buffet said: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”
- ggm 2y agoI don't disagree. I only commented on a thing he was quoted on in the article. An awful lot of the energy in left wing intellectual circles has always come from what Lenin called "useful idiots" and this guy is no different. Objectifying things as class war is a mechanism to cast the warrior into the bad set basically. I suspect he said it, because he doesn't want it dismissed by some readers on the basis thats his place. I don't personally think it invalidates the writing.
- elzbardico 2y ago“Framing issues as class warfare is often a tactic used to portray those fighting for change as the villains.” imho is a lot clearer than "Objectifying things as class war is a mechanism to cast the warrior into the bad set basically." We should stop using the mannerisms of social sciences majors in our speech, words like objectifying, empowering just make things more hermetic.
- ggm 2y ago[flagged]