Re: labour aristocracy, cont.

["DMS" <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LP,

Oh Louis, please don't bring that stuff up about Walmart and the cornucopia
of cheap goods as being the offset for the decline in real wages since 1973.

Sounds like an argument from the Heritage Foundation.

Can't wait to tell those workers at Wal-Mart, you know, the ones who get
fired for organizing, the ones who are forced to work overtime without pay,
just how lucky they are.

Better you should read NICKLED AND DIMED.  Or maybe the Statistical Abstract
of the US.  Here's a benefit for the US working classes:
 Since 1979 the proportion of children in the United States being born into
poverty has increased steadily, with the exception of the period 1995-1998.

Praise the lord and pass the Sam's Club card, Mom!

Used to work in Jersey, Ironbound section of Newark.  Not exactly a boiling
cauldron, is right. But it's one thing to talk about objective conditions,
it's quite another to claim that such conditions are permanent.

You think it would be great to involve working people in the war, but you
don't expect any of them to become revolutionaries?  Did I get that right ?
Huh?  Why is that?  Workers in Europe have joined the demonstrations.
Unions have taken forthright positons.  Workers in the US have joined and
supported demonstrations.  So what makes them less likely to "see the
light," than a university student?

And the other point is: it's not great for the workers to join the antiwar
movement, it's imperative.  For everyone's interest.  Including yours, mine,
the students, the workers in Iraq and themselves.

What kind of cigar?  What brand of beer? Cigars and beer should always be
shared, no matter who's "right." Except when dealing with class enemies.
dms




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