John-John, RIP

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Tue Jul 20 20:06:50 PDT 1999


So how do you explain greens and the freedom socialist folks together in Seattle marching right in front of the Boeing plants in Everett and Renton during the bombing? You guys have been breathing that old mesozoic swamp air too long!

wc overedumaket fukup and proudovit

ian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Alex LoCascio
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 1:13 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: John-John, RIP
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:40:47 -0400 kelley <oudies at flash.net> writes:
>
> >i recall working for plant closing legislation in NYS. every time
> someone turned us away at
> >their front doors or sniffed at our petition or screamed at us as we
> stood
> >outside the gates of a factory engaging in a little consciousness
> raising,
> >someone or three or ten would grimace and whine about apathy and
> mindless
> >support for capitalism, etc--as if it was the personal, moral fault of
> the
> >individuals in questions, as if they'd never heard of structural
> analyses,
> >as if they'd never heard of hegemony, and so forth.
>
> BTW, Kelley, one last thing before I sign off for the day (I'm waaaaaay
> over limit).
>
> The above situation does not apply to yours truly. Allow me to explain.
>
> I was having a terrific fucking day today, having finally gotten off my
> ass and joined Solidarity, and I got in touch with an old buddy in
> Detroit who is soon going to do the same.
>
> Then something put a damper on my day.
>
> The director of the Peacenik group that I've been involved in since the
> NATO bombings of Yugoslavia refuses to send a contingent to the
> Steelworkers march this Friday, on the grounds that he doesn't want "to
> help anyone get a job in the armament industry."
>
> Needless to say, I was FURIOUS. If anybody is guilty of lacking
> structural analyses, it's misanthropic Greens and Pacifists who I suspect
> don't really give a shit about the human race, or at least the part of it
> that has to work for a living.
>
> My criticism of working class boneheads notwithstanding, I'll go to the
> mat to defend my brothers against pseudo-radicals who think they can
> solve the problems of the world with candle light vigils and Working
> Assets phone service. Shit.
>
>
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