>The U.S. proletariat is "insurgent?" Since when?
as ken typed not too long ago, the biggest wave of labor insurgency occured just shortly before the mass media decided to spin it so that the white working class came off as looking hugely conservative and responsible for a backlash against the left -- despite showing evidence right in their articles that this was not so. that would be the late 60s when labor insurgency was at the highest level and was far more diverse than it had been previously.
man. i don't mind antagonism and bitching and general snittiness at all. you all know me. but i sure do hope that someday all of us could reflect a little more on our knee jerk reactions regarding the generation gap. i cut my teeth on labor activism, such as it was. and i got burned in the process, feeling entirely alienated by hoity toity professional organizers and marxists who never did a day's hard labor in their life and had some rilly crappy stereotypes about workers being oh so racist and sexist, failing to see their own racisma dn sexism at every turn. and i don't particularly care for the crap dished out here re how young people are all pathetically just not radical enough or how anarchism [of whatever stripe apparently] has no hope in hell. but, equally so, i don't care for knee jerk reactions from the other side either. i don't especially care for the anti-labor stereotypes--both anti-labor in terms of labor leaders and ant-work that i read in various anarchist lists. not that you've exactly done this chuck, but you really should think about what it sounds like when all you can must is some bit about the mindless sheep led by the mass media.
i've put my activism on hold for the most part for the part coupla years. reading you guys does not make me feel at all interested in returning to the fray.
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