Re: [Marxism] Fare dodgers, yesterday and today

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:17:12 -0300, Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:

> Once he was on the coach, he discovered in desperation that the 
> German cde. was not with him!
> 
> Had the thugs captured his friend, had a shipwreck taken place in the 
> harbour? He stepped off the carriage (the train was already on the 
> point of leaving the platform) and stared at the German cde., 
> paralyzed at the gates of the platform. "Come on, what are you 
> doing?", he screamed.
> 
> "Got no platform ticket", was the answer, "how do you want me to get 
> on board without it?"
> 
> Of course, Mr. Acosta, as per his tale, ran to the man, grabbed him 
> by the sleeve and threw him into the train as a piece of luggage, 
> after which he entered himself.
 
  I have the suspicion that this might be Mr. Acosta's version of the 
phrase attributed to Lenin, that the Germans, before taking and 
occupying a train station, would first buy a platform ticket... 

  BTW, this fare dodger at Gare du Nord had more reasons to evade the 
police, because he was searched for some other reasons (lack of papers? 
attribution of some crime to him?). At least, he is one of us. And I 
find the notable element in the whole event for me, is the spontaneous 
rebellion against the cops intervention, which quickly escalated. 

  We may not be in agreement with every act commited in the course of 
that revolt, but those revolting were out people. We stand with them, 
and are not neutral. 

BTW, you might appreciate another railway story in the same vein, this one 
about "Jeckes", i.e. German (jewish) immigrants to Palestine/Israel. 

A "jeckes" reports about a train ride from Tel Aviv to Haifa: "It was horrible, 
I got a seat riding backwards, and I can't stand that". Asks his counterpart: 
"Couldn't you have asked somebody sitting opposite of you to change places?" -- 
"But that was the problem -- I couldn't ask, because nobody was sitting there!" 


Yours, 
L.W.

Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German

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