Kids and mortgages are petit-bourgeois luxuries you authoritarian Marxist pig!
------Original Message------ From: JKSCHW at aol.com To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Sent: June 21, 2000 4:01:59 AM GMT Subject: Re: Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.?
In a message dated 6/20/00 9:18:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gcf at panix.com writes:
<< So which is it? Complaints about the alienated conditions of nulcear families and wage labor are "blah blah" and a rude offense to honest workingmen, or a important subject for which plain speaking and action might be appropriate? What is it you're going to do something about? >>
Don't be obtuse. Obviously it's a bad thing about modern life that our social conditions put so much burden of childcare on the parents, typically the mom, in the nuclear family; and that people have to work long hours and don't have time to do other things they might like to do, including organize to change those conditions. We work to chnage them within the limits placed on us by the demands of work and family.
What is insulting is to have some student twerps with lots of free time on their hands and no kids to be responsible for tell you that the organizational conditions that might make it possible for working parents to participate in a movement to change things amounts to complicity in our own oppression, reproduction of alienated conscioness, and other blah balh that you seem to think passes for plain speaking.
As an "honest workingman" (and my wife is an "honest workingwoman, I guess) in this position myself, I don't pretend to speak for others. But you won't get any action from me or my wife if your meetings take more than an hour and a half, cause we gotta get up for work and take care of the kids. Howzat for plain speaking? --jks
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