Comments on: US08: Predicting the unpredictable http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/us08-predicting-the-unpredictable/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lucy http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/us08-predicting-the-unpredictable/#comment-23571 Lucy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23571 "Nothing concentrates the mind of working class Republicans, obsessed with cultural issues, like actual hunger. It kinda cuts through to real class interests." I thought Guy had rejected the false consciousness interpretation of Middle America's culture-wars obsession right after Bittergate? And now he returns to his good ol' historical materialist self? Maybe Guy's the one who's hungry. Get that man a waffle. “Nothing concentrates the mind of working class Republicans, obsessed with cultural issues, like actual hunger. It kinda cuts through to real class interests.” I thought Guy had rejected the false consciousness interpretation of Middle America’s culture-wars obsession right after Bittergate? And now he returns to his good ol’ historical materialist self? Maybe Guy’s the one who’s hungry. Get that man a waffle.

]]> By: Bernard Keane http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/us08-predicting-the-unpredictable/#comment-23572 Bernard Keane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23572 Why doesn't anyone ever complain about lefty commentators displaying false consciousness? As affluent, educated middle-class types their interests are best served by a conservative agenda of low taxes, support for private schools and law'n'order. Yet they doggedly adhere to a left-wing agenda of a bloated state sector, moral relativism and transfers from profits to wages. Ker-azee. Or is the whole concept of false consciousness just another example of false consciousness? Why doesn’t anyone ever complain about lefty commentators displaying false consciousness? As affluent, educated middle-class types their interests are best served by a conservative agenda of low taxes, support for private schools and law’n’order. Yet they doggedly adhere to a left-wing agenda of a bloated state sector, moral relativism and transfers from profits to wages. Ker-azee.

Or is the whole concept of false consciousness just another example of false consciousness?

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