Re: [Marxism] New Icelandic PM the first openly gay PM in the world

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>> Obama in the US, Johanna in Iceland-- things are really looking  better 
everyday.
 
Love that bit about the new PM's sexual orientation causing  excitement.<<
 
 
Comment
 
Better or clearer? 
 
Had I know it would take 34 years to complete a process (bound up with the  
emergence and role of the black leader in our history we leap beyond in Detroit 
 back in 1974), I would have invested a full decade in studying Capital and 
made  wiser investments for retirement. Instead, today I have to admit to 
myself that  for reasons still not clear enough for me, our working class had  
to 
wage a battle within and with itself to overcome various quantitative  
distinctions once called "identity movements." 
 
I am not sure exactly why this is so. 
 
Marx in 1848  read much clearer today. 
 
"Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct  
feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and  
more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes 
directly  facing each other â Bourgeoisie and Proletariat."
 
Seems to me the un relentless, and unrelenting hand of history is doing for  
us what we could not do for ourselves: collapse the political middle. Obama's  
election proves something to the working class itself: sides. 
 
Our working class is spontaneously moving - drifting, into direct  
confrontation with the bourgeois order. In respect to the black leader of a  by 
gone 
era, what issue can they dare champion today that is not a direct  question of 
concern to the proletarian masses and its lowest paid and most  destitute 
section? 
 
Pardon, while I escort another group of Black Leaders to the museum,  
alongside the industrial capitalist, the spinning wheel, the steam engine and  
several other signposts along our journey. 
 
I insist. 
 
WL.  
 
 
 
 
 
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