Re: AUT: Fwd: It's official: struggle is healthy

["chris wright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Thiago,

I didn't say don't look at the politics, but who's a yuppie?  I mean, sure,
I think I know them when I see them, but lots of the computer geeks and
engineers I know are considered yuppies (as are a lot of the academics who
mix in similar social circles).  I appreciate the motive, but its too fast
and loose in relation to this.  Besides, white workers in this country have
a history of striking to keep Black workers out of certain jobs and men have
a history of striking to keep out women (and in Italy, as Steve Wright
recently pointed out to me, some of the autonomia folks in Rome, some of the
best, assaulted a feminist march.)

The issue is the politics.  'Yuppies' going on strike in support of other
workers or for better wages and working conditions are one thing and the
stuff in Venezuela is another, but you can't be certain that being a yuppie
guarantees one or the other (since yuppies are, IMO, part of the middle,
mediating layer of the population which has no independent politics of its
own.)  Now, if you had said something about the capitalists, I wouldn't have
quipped.

Cheers,
Chris
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Subject: Re: AUT: Fwd: It's official: struggle is healthy


> Quoting chris wright <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> power to
> > them.  Protest is not the private domain of "revolutionaries" who can
check
> > "authenitc prole" and "authentic communist" cards at the door.  The
> > proletariat is not an already existing class, but a class which will be
> > formed out of struggle.  It might even include some anthropologists ;)
>
> You mean, like in Venezuela? From what I hear around here in Porto Alegre,
the
> attitude of the striking bourgeoisie over there is pretty much that the
lock-
> out is a fantastic holiday, edifying, healthy and a great party to boot.
You
> just can't buy coca cola or go to the bank. There is a joke that as soon
as the
> beer runs out they will call it off.
>
>
> Thiago
>
>
>
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