Re: [Marxism] excerpt from blog post: was the 1982 recession worse than today's?

[Tom Cod <tcod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw that article and appreciated it as well, having commented on it 
elsewhere. 
At that time I was 29 years old and was in and out of homeless shelters when 
not living in my car,
(sometimes selling my plasma for gas money, another story) doing farm labor and 
casual labor 
before settling in on cannery work in SE Alaska. That was the context of my 
"turn" from middle class
college student to the working class, something capitalism did for me, not the 
product of some 
kind of agonized decision of a sectarian cult.  This period is skipped over by 
mainstream media
commentators who jump right back to the '30s, a function in part of the 
bourgoisie's sanctification
of Reagan, something liberals pander to as well.  I can't think of a more 
odious candidate for sainthood
than that individual, however.

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