Re: The Question of Violence -- Part 1

[Jeffrey Booth <booth2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Justin's post below betrays the pervasive elitism among most "leftists"
in the U.S. .  Many working class people, including myself, grew up
around guns and using guns and so we're not afraid of them.
        Also, we truly are suspicious, and rightly so, of the police and
government and lawyers etc... (the whole "Justice" system).
        How could an armed proletariat be a negative thing to a marxist?  Oh, I
forgot.  You are a Market Socialist.

"How you gonna come
 when they kick in your front door
 with your hands on your head
 or on the trigger of your gun?"

                The Clash

                                                
                                -- Jeff Booth

On Sun, 4 Feb 1996, Justin Schwartz wrote:

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> A very interesting post, Leo.
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> There's something about a gun that seems to shut off the cerebral cortex
> in male Americans. I recll a time when an ill-advised DSA member of Ann
> Arbor city council was inspired for reasons best known to himself to bring
> a gun control measure up for discussion and vote, altrhough most of the
> rest of us political activists in town begged him not to. AA is not a town
> with a big gun problem, except when the cops shoot Black kids. Well,
> predictably enough the council chambers and city hall filled up with men
> in camoflage gear, the largest crowd the council had ever had, all of whom
> were talking up the only constitutional right they care about.
>
> --Justin
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