Re: Plot Resolution: The Lady or the Tiger

In article <MPG.1e08a9d9c864d476989b7b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joann Zimmerman <jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In article <febsp1t7cvldjru0ffvbgoarega7pduiio@xxxxxxx>,
>jamesd@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> --
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:10:12 -0600, Joann Zimmerman
>> > Not a single solitary one. Not and continue to be even
>> > remotely of the upper classes. Not and be someone who
>> > could continue to speak on equal terms with her
>> > friends, neighbors, and even family.
>>
>> You are projecting a vicious hate filled Marxist class
>> war onto the past that I do not sense when I read the
>> words of people who lived then.
>
>Marxist analysis is a useful tool for historians and sociologists.

I wouldn't even go that far. But it may be a useful tool for
understanding *the nineteenth century*, to which, look you, Marx
and Maupassant both belong. In Europe, anyway. In the US the
concepts are more slippery. Whatever we've got for a class
system (I do not trust Fussell as far as I could throw him)
depends almost entirely on how much money you have *now*, and
every time I attempt to understand class structure in Europe
someone says either "no, that's wrong," or "no, that's all gone
now," whereupon someone else says "no, it isn't."


Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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