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[Marxism] Marxists and Human Rights



Oops! I wrote this century's most eloquent defense of free speech,
along with bits about how reactionary US students use free speech to
bash feminism and minorities--analogous to how the reactionary US
Government uses "Human Rights" to attack socialist countries (I wrote a
paper called "Abuse Excuse: Human Rights, The United States and Cuba.")
--but I was looking something up on the web when a message appeared on
my screen saying I'd performed an "illegal" function. Don't ask me what
because I don't know, but I lost that message.

I also wrote about my experiences with obnoxious entrepreneurs when I
was a reference librarian assistant at a state university library, and
how I was forced to ferret out by-laws, stock quotes, and reports from
Standard and Poor's for them while tuition-paying, working class
students wandered lost through the stacks. Meanwhile, if you'll excuse
my free speech and loose lips, one of those muthah fakirs on the phone
complained about the service yet would rather smash public education and
commidify everything. I had to cater to him. I quit that job when they
wouldn't give me over the 19 hours per week to get into the union and
get health insurance coverage. I told them they wouldn't get any grad
student to take it unless they did, so the next person they hired they
tacked on the hour, so, I am so very happy to relate, that worker got
into the union and got health insurance.

Free speech?
Free for some.
Or for a sum.
(anyone
for a
free for all?)

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