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Gang leader for a day

Feb 19, 2008 12:38

February 17, 2008
( Hanging out with the ghetto’s Gordon Gekkos
The sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent years living with a brutal Chicago gang. He tells the forces that shaped it are spreading to Britain )

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kenosis February 20 2008, 05:56:05 UTC

It sure is a good thing there's Marxist-Leninist groups like FARC out there that are dealing drugs for the people, eh?

Some may argue international terrorism is part of global class war.

Is that what you're arguing?

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kenosis February 21 2008, 02:17:18 UTC

There's a lot of Marxist assumptions in your comments - class war, exploitation, the internationalist nature of social class.

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kenosis February 22 2008, 07:22:41 UTC

So then what's the value of z? Respectfully, we assume x = y, therefore this guy shouldn't have abandoned Marxism? Does this neat isomorphism have a name?

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kenosis February 22 2008, 20:35:20 UTC

The biggest blind spot I think I have is that I don't think I have enough information to make a normative assessment or analysis of this guy's thought processes based on an article about him.

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