"The Big One"

[Carrol Cox]

I'm in the grip of a moderate to severe depressive seige, and I may be
letting my grumpiness show through here, as well as the sense of glue in
the synapses, but I have to make one point, clumsily or not, in response
to one sentence in Lou's post:

What's
> refreshing about "Roger and Me" is that looks at the working-class without
> rose-colored spectacles.

If you actually do this, look at the working class without rose-colored
glasses, there are three issues one must focus on, probably nearly to the
exclusion of all other issues-- and I would say this holds whether on is
operating from a marxist perspective or 'merely' an active pro-working
class bias. Those issues are:

	1. The failure of white workers to support black (and
other no-white) workers

	2. The failure of male workers (and all too many female workers)
to support female workers.

	3. The failure of more skilled workers (especially those with
"professional" pretensions) to support less skilled workers.

I don't know enough about Michael Moore and his films to know whether he
does or does not recognize this necessity.... If he does, then he is
worthy of Lou's praise. If he doesn't, then he is a lightweight and a
trifler.

Carrol