Ancient antagonism between pred. mental and pred physicallabor

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx 12/15/00 04:36PM >>>
What's to prevent the reconciliation of city & countryside from going
together with lightening the demands of physical labor & increasing
free time _as much as circumstances allow_?

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CB: In general I agree with movement to resolve the ancient antagonism between
predominantly mental and predominantly physical labor.

There is some issue of "workerism" , romanticising physical labor by some 
radicals.

However, not touched here or on LBO-Talk is the wellknown, platitudinous even , 
but
true ANCIENT SNOBBERY OF PREDOMINANTLY MENTAL LABORERS which is part of the 
elitism of
ruling classes which exploited predominantly physical laborers down through the 
class
societies.

Some of the American working class prejudice against eggheads in founded in the 
role
of intellecuals as servants of the European ruling class. When America broke 
away the
working classes associated the ruling class and the ivory tower , with good 
reason.
This complicates our effort to overcome the antagonism, our effort to raise the
consciousness of the working class which must mean more predominantly mental 
labor by
predominantly physical laborers.