Re: VERBAL ABUSE

[djones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (rakesh bhandari)]

>. What if somebody's "discourse of emancipation" is wrong or
>stupid or misconceived

Well, obviously, then call the spade a goddamn nigger.  I know that you are
not afraid, uptight, intemperate or politically correct.

It seems to me that the use of the word of nigger *within* a community will
become acceptable only in the context of cultures of permanent
under-employment.  From residential segregration to redlining to employer
discrimination,   racism has served, as William Julius Wilson may put it,
to "concentrate" unemployment among African-Americans and "spatialize" it
in the areas to which they have been coercively relegated.  Which is not to
say that they are the only insecure ones in the labor market.  Indeed
workers without credentials (unskilled workers) seem to be the most
vulenerable of all.

Indeed I think the more important discussion would be about the political
nature of those who have endured or even grown up into permanent
unemployment.

I just found out that the Austro Marxist Max Adler dealt with this question
in 1933 as it was becoming evident that no upturn in the business cycle was
going to eliminate unemployment.  He raised questions of the relation of
these marginalized people to the actively exploited workers.  I am just now
looking at this piece which is included in a volume entitled
Austro-Marxists, ed. Tom Bottomore and Patrick Goode (who has also written
a helpful biography of Karl Korsch).




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