Or is this person a fictional character who escaped from the “Peter SImple” universe when the late Michael W. was not looking?
I remember the late Frank Johnson arguing that the left had an incredibly low opinion of the “working class” people they claimed to support.
Mr Johnson came from home where the father was a manual worker – there were serious books (and music) in the home. This was NOT unusual in the area (the homes of Frank Johnson’s childhood friends also had serious books and music within them – and the books were read, and the music was played).
Yet the leftist elite assumed that manual workers were somehow on the cultural level of cats or dogs (if not lower).
Hence the need for the Marxist “intellectual vanguard”.
wonderful
Is Polly Toynbee real?
Or is this person a fictional character who escaped from the “Peter SImple” universe when the late Michael W. was not looking?
I remember the late Frank Johnson arguing that the left had an incredibly low opinion of the “working class” people they claimed to support.
Mr Johnson came from home where the father was a manual worker – there were serious books (and music) in the home. This was NOT unusual in the area (the homes of Frank Johnson’s childhood friends also had serious books and music within them – and the books were read, and the music was played).
Yet the leftist elite assumed that manual workers were somehow on the cultural level of cats or dogs (if not lower).
Hence the need for the Marxist “intellectual vanguard”.
Isn’t Polly Toynbee the real “Mrs Dutt-Pauker”?
1326 words (but bear in mind, I kept my socks on, so–) and every one of them well worth the reading. “Wonderful,” indeed!