Re: [Marxism] Poor, white and pissed

[Michael Sims <mjsbpmagen-mxmail@xxxxxxxx>]

As a foreigner I only heard the expression from black americans used
ironically, it seemed to me.

I'm talking about hearing it on U.S. media in Europe - I was never in
the situation to hear about it when I visited the US (Pitttsburgh) -
then all I heard was about some of my US colleagues being hill-billies.
(In truth they were ALL hill-billies just come out of the woods, 'cos
they were trying to tell me that the USSR was going to invade W.Europe
and that I, as a W.European was totally unqualified to object to that
assesment because we Europeans were naive and corrupted by ruskie's
propaganda).

If the expression white-crash as used by a black-american means "we're
"trash" but so are you" then isn't there the rudiments of class
consciousness and even solidarity ?

How about then some "trash" movement?

Lumpenproletariat of the world unite - you have literally nothing to lose?

Perhaps it is time that marxists paid more attention to other parts of
society which were not so prominent in the 19thC?

The elderly (demonstrating in Russia), the unemployed (5million? in
Germany, 20 m in the EU) etc.

The problem has always been organising - factory workers was easy-peasy
in comparison. Does the progress of society depend upon exploiting
ready-made, off-the-shelf already unified and organised (factory/office
staff) groups of people ?

I sincerely hope not.

White, Black and any other "trash" should become a focus of our
attention - do the Maoists have the right approach to this problem?

Michael

btw - I classify myself as lumpenproletarian because I refuse now to
work in my chosen profession anymore - computers, - which leaves me
nothing more than washing dishes (proverbally speaking), dole or the
streets.



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