Mandel and Keyens

[bautiste at uswest.net]

How is he or you right? All the marxist sells the worker is dreams of a past
that didn't happen and a future that might (but probably won't). Why should
they believe in your ghosts? And why or how should they think they are being
exploited? Maybe, when (if?) this precious crash of the stock market happens
then the worker will realize their exploitation? But then they will be working
so hard to make ends meet they'll think you're crazier than before. then the
system has to be saved or we'll all sink (or so they'll think and say). The
exploitation is about the rottenness of a system that exploits Vietnamese
workers for 5cents an hour. That's exploitation--but the American worker
doesn't care. He or she can only be persuaded to care if there's something else
that motivates them to care... The revolution is in information and the lack or
denial of it.Those who control the means of communication not only write the
history books, they write the history, a scenario Wall Street and the Pentagon
put on the big screens.

chuck miller

Doug Henwood wrote:


> We know what we mean by the term exploitation, but try it out on an
> audience of working people in this glorious land we live in. If you tell
> them they're more exploited now, with unemployment around 4.5% and real
> wages rising, than they were a few years ago when it was 7% and real wages
> were falling, they'll think you're nuts, even though you're right.

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