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irate: on the personal attack part--no problem. apologies for having take it as such.
on the other: it is an analytic position that is often kinda helpful in particular, highly controlled ways. nothing more. it provides no coherent way of thinking about how capitalism has reorganized itself since 1860, so as a whole operates more as a model for a particular type of theory than anything else. so your point--which seemed to me a bit of redbaiting--is moot.
sorry if you dont like the language--i suspect that what you really dont like is talking about the fact of class divisions in the states and the ways in whcih those divisions are reproduced--by sacrficing the potential of millions of children whose parents happen to live in poorer areas of the country. the point about differential access to resources has been made earlier here as well: manx was talking about it during a particular crescendo of flagwaving...you probably didnt like that either.
social reality is much harder to look at than some prefabircated red white and blue shangri-la.
but if one looks at social realities, it does not follow that they hate america. they just see it for what it is.
you would think that would be understood as a useful thing.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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