And the winner of the Oppressed Peoples Contest is a dyslexic Cablinasian lesbian (with the "Ca" part being half Irish and half Jewish) whose partner is a Palestinian gypsy from Mexico in a wheelchair with AIDS, both of working class background and currently organizing workers in their factory in a non-AFL-CIO union!!!! Wow, top that.
BTW, K-Paula, I go by Barkley, not John. My idiot university computer insists on putting my full name. But only idiot computers and insurance salespeople call me John. Barkley Rosser On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:54:59 -0500 K <d-m-c at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> John Rosser wrote:
>
> > On a less serious note, and in response to
> Charles
> >Brown and some others, I suppose we could have an
> >"oppressed peoples contest" on this list,
>
> Oh I think not. How weak, as my son might say. But,
> you know Mr. Rosser, I was thinking just today that it
> is all quite interesting that no one seems to give one
> wit about the grrRls. We get to recite all our
> oppressed identities in order to what? -- I guess
> authenticate our claims to be involved in, to
> advocate, to theorize the struggles of historically
> oppressed people. All this talk of workers and
> workers' struggles, of African Americans, Mexicans,
> Indigenous peoples, why even disabled folks. And
> nothing NOTHING about the fact that women's
> *experience* of oppression is likely quite different
> from that of men. Oh what should I expect from a list
> filled with Marxists and those who are heavy users of
> Marx. [ (c) Sawicky] And the question as to whether
> I'm among the Marxist elect appears to have been
> settled by one Mr. Charles Brown, as he seems to be in
> the business of annointing the chosen few. (And he
> said he wasn't interested in playing "My hard on for
> Marx is bigger than yours" You are very coy Mr.
> Brown. But I'll admit that sometimes I do admire that
> in a buoy.)
>
> Of course, this will be immediately attacked as a bit
> of identity politics of my own. But honestly, do you
> really think so. If one Lou Proyect can speculate
> about the potential for fascism among workers by
> engaging in an analysis of the effects of
> occupation/class location, then it seems to me that we
> might want to consider who predominantly fills those
> occupations. A lot of talk of service and clerical
> workers, no talk about the gendered structure of class
> inequality and what that might mean for the future of
> class struggle.
>
> Well, back to regular programing comRods [(c) Paula]
>
> SnitgrrRl
>
>
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu