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THEY HATE IF YOU'RE CLEVER AND DESPISE A FOOL: RACE AND CLASS: A view from the bottom up Paperback – December 9, 2018

by Valeriano Diviacchi (Author)
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This book is a conceptual analysis of race and class. It begins as a contemplation of the author's personal life experience with both varying from his white trash emigrant beginnings to his Ivy League education. It then goes on to an analytic contemplation of the past meanings of race and class, their present use and usefulness, and the future use and usefulness of these concepts. The author argues that social class distinctions are a necessary attribute of any modern Technological Society just as they have always been a necessary aspect of all past civilizations. The only new attribute of class struggle that Technological Society creates is its ability to isolate individuals in the lower classes from any social bonding with others in their class and thus potentially ending class struggle and making present ruling class ideology permanent resulting in the death of history. However, the death of history is not the end of history. The author argues that such death may not be a bad thing given the material benefits and power Technological Society creates for humanity's need to explore, discover, and conquer the universe. The author argues that race distinctions will continue to be used and be usefulness as a means to maintain class distinctions and as a business model for profit. In modern Technological Society, the humanities act solely as a means for normative power. Distinctions such as race serve both as a means to keep individuals in the lower classes isolated and unable to struggle together and as a means for monetary profit by those humanities holding normative power.
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    142 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    December 9, 2018
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.36 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1790991323
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1790991327
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[The] provocative essay They Hate If You're Clever And Despise A Fool challenges conventional views on class and race to deliver novel conclusions on the subject. ... They Hate If You're Clever And Despise A Fool is a worthwhile reading experience. Anyone interested in the topics of class and race should give it a chance. Whether you agree or disagree, you'll be faced with a plethora of strong arguments supported by logic and scholarly inquiry. It's a thought-provoking book that raises important questions. --- OnlineBookClub.org

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (December 9, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 142 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1790991323
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1790991327
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.36 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Valeriano Diviacchi

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The author was born in Yugoslavia in 1958. As part of the Italian Exodus of ethnic Italians escaping from communism across the border into Italy, he and his family eventually emigrated to the United States in 1963. As the first English literate member of his working class family, he was the first to graduate from high school, then served six years in the US Submarine Force, and then was the first to graduate from college at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he practiced trial law as a solo trial attorney for 25 years and then graduated from NYU with a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies. He is presently pursuing further graduate work in philosophy at Boston College.

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Sentinel3302
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Discussion of Class and Race and Priority of the First
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2021
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All nine of Diviacchi's books on philosophy are outstanding. Individually and together, they offer a profound and coherent point of view that far surpasses the pinched range of acceptable opinion in extensity, profundity, coherence, and value. If given the choice of reading a book by his Harvard Law School classmate Michelle Obama or Diviacchi, choose Diviacchi.
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Giuseppe Madre
5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than "Hillbilly Elegy"; has substance and conceptual analysis of his life.
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2018
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This book is a much better self-examination of a person's life experience with class and race struggles. Unlike the author of "Hillbilly Elegy", this author did more with his life than graduate law school and then use the graduation to gloat and tell rich people what they want to hear about the working class he left behind. Plus, it contains a conceptual analysis of race and class struggle in modern Technological Society.
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David Kamedulski
1.0 out of 5 stars Yikes
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2022
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What a mess. I was intrigued by the title, but this is ultimately a reactionary rant. It may be trite, but seems like "OK boomer" is the merited response. The book's title is attributed to Ozzy Osbourne rather than John Lennon, one would think the author could get this right.
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Philip Hogan
5.0 out of 5 stars Diviachism at it's best.
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
Diviacchi delivers a unique timely critique. His use of some Marxist sociology without the dialectical materialism offers Diviachism at it's best.
Buried in the negation of history and analysis of identity politics are gems of logic, history and language. His reductio ad absurdum of contemporary discussions of race is unassailable. The true nature and purpose of identity politics is revealed as the domination of elites by dividing the governed in themselves.
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