Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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The fact that the majority cannot be convinced by the “rational” capitalist discourse and is much more prone to endorse a populist anti-elitist stance is not to be discounted as a case of lower-class primitivism: Populists correctly detect the irrationality of this rational approach; "their" rage directed at faceless institutions that regulate "their" lives in a nontransparent way is fully justified.
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a) 'their' in the last sentence denotes the majority?
b) The parsing of the last sentence is like this?
/their rage directed at faceless institutions that regulate their lives in a nontransparent way (subject) /is fully justified. (predicate)
c) Their "rage" in the last sentence means 'a strong feeling of anger' that is difficult to control) or 'a strong desire' by many people to have or do sth ?
The fact that the majority cannot be convinced by the “rational” capitalist discourse and is much more prone to endorse a populist anti-elitist stance is not to be discounted as a case of lower-class primitivism: Populists correctly detect the irrationality of this rational approach; "their" rage directed at faceless institutions that regulate "their" lives in a nontransparent way is fully justified.
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a) 'their' in the last sentence denotes the majority?
b) The parsing of the last sentence is like this?
/their rage directed at faceless institutions that regulate their lives in a nontransparent way (subject) /is fully justified. (predicate)
c) Their "rage" in the last sentence means 'a strong feeling of anger' that is difficult to control) or 'a strong desire' by many people to have or do sth ?
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Anonymous The fact that the majority cannot be convinced by the “rational” capitalist discourse and is much more prone to endorse a populist anti-elitist stance is not to be discounted as a case of lower-class primitivism: Populists correctly detect the irrationality of this rational approach; "their" rage directed at faceless institutions that regulate "their" lives in a nontransparent way is fully justified. It's political gibberish. the irrationality of this rational approach is what?
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AnonymousThe fact that the majority cannot be convinced by the “rational” capitalist discourse and is much more prone to endorse a populist anti-elitist stance is not to be discounted as a case of lower-class primitivism: Populists correctly detect the irrationality of this rational approach; "their" rage directed at faceless institutions that regulate "their" lives in a
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