From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>
To: RadPsyNet-Members@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu Nov 6 18:27 -0800
Subject: Re: [RadPsyNet-Members] The Labor Party Illusion...
Hi
This isn't quite right. A part of the neocon agenda is reactionary class struggle. For the side of the 'bourgeoisie'. As Vwx says, compassion is out, emotional plague is in.
On Thu Nov 6 0:27, Opq sent:
And just how does "class struggle" get taught to Americans? I mean, haven't we been through all this before (at least once?). I've been re-reading Clancy Sigal's "Going Away," and there it all is: "class struggle," "worker solidarity," "consciousness" — fifty years ago, it collapsed. My god, we think the South didn't give in, in the face of historical processes? Here in the States, there is NO class consciousness except in the minds of a few unreconstructed intellectuals. You can't get people to think about economic/social class as long as they watch TV!
The other thing is that 'class struggle' has to be differentiated from the Comintern line. Gramsci's perspective on "proletarian hegemony" and supporting the "proletarian intellectuals" works better. Thus Martin Luther King, Jr.'s APA speech 1967 on changing the way we do 'behavioral science'. Today there are some mental health providers who follow the perspective of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry, which leans on Gramsci and Foucault.
Andrew Phelps