[Marxism] All honors to trespassers

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:43:38 +0200 (MES)
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> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fare dodgers, yesterday and today
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> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:17:12 -0300, Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:
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> > 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.

Of course I count them as ours, Lüko (which makes us twice as 
responsible for their shyness). And I am always reminded that the 
German proletariat was the single WESTERN proletariat who, at least, 
attempted a socialist revolution. Perhaps your suspicion is right, 
Lüko, but at the same time I found it interesting to show the links 
between many "compagnons de route" of Stalinism in the 30s and 
bourgeois leaders. If the anecdote was concocted, in the end it was 
concocted only on a personal level. It wasn't, when you think of the 
sacred awe of many self-appointed revolutionaries of those times (and 
ours) to trespass the commands of the bourgeoisie, including 
sometimes the "don't walk on the grass" command in public greens...

> 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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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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"La patria tiene que ser la dignidad arriba y el regocijo abajo".
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