RE: John Holloway debate/McLaren

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Our struggle is clearly a constant struggle to get away from capital, a
struggle for space, for autonomy, a struggle to lengthen the leash, to
intensify the dis-articulation [I should mention that Holloway uses this
ungainly term a total of 11,225 times in the chapter where this citation
appears] of domination. This takes a million different forms: throwing the
alarm clock at the wall, arriving late for 'work', back pain and other
forms of absenteeism, sabotage, struggles over tea breaks..."

Well, okay. I am all for arriving late for work and all that, but that's
the way I have operated for over 36 years. I don't need to read Autonomist
jargon for that.

Response (Jim C): I worked my way through school (full-time) as an Orderly
working primarily with terminally-ill patients but worked all the possible
wards in the hospitals at one time or another. I went back to this work
after losing a teaching gig (tenure track) which was due to "budget
cutbacks" (official version) or the interventions of the "Redcoats" Security
and Intelligence (RCMP) if the private leak of my department head is to be
believed. When working in the hospitals, had I pursued these rather
individualistic--and even narcissistic--forms of "resistance" and "protest",
all it would have meant is that some desperately-ill people would have been
left longer in their own excrement and urine, would have suffered even worse
bedsores, would have suffered worse in the middle of the night when they
couldn't sleep as they were going through the usual stages of terminal
illness, would have had to endure even more pain than they usually had to
and would have suffered even worse deaths than they had to.

This guy Holloway is, in my opinion, a petit-bourgeois,
ultra-individualistic and narcissistic punk who obviously has had little
contact with the real world, in love with himself and his own wordsmithing.

Jim C.