chuck miller
Louis Proyect wrote:
> Yes, it's true. And I'm not sure what I should have done.
>
> I was peddling my bike up the tallest hill in Central Park when all of a
> sudden a beautiful African-American female cop drove up alongside me in one
> of those patrol carts. And when I say beautiful, I mean movie star beautiful.
>
> She said, "Go ahead. You can make it," referring to the long upgrade. Our
> eyes met as she drove slowly besides me and we both smiled. She then said,
> "You really look good." I nearly fell off my bike and all I could come up
> with was, "I'm sorry--I'm at a loss for words. Young and beautiful women
> intimidate me." With that she said thanks and drove on.
>
> What I concealed from her was my Marxist concept of the role of the cops in
> the bourgeois society. When I was studying Trotskyist politics in the late
> '60s, one of the things that was drummed into our heads was that cops were
> not part of the working class even if they were in trade unions, worked for
> a wage and occasionally struck.
>
> So my question is whether I would have been crossing class lines if I asked
> for her phone number?
>
> Louis Proyect
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
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