European Unions

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Yeah, you hear academics quoting Trotsky on working class militancy
>>  and consciousness all the time! I remember back in grad school, you
>>  heard folks in the English department lounge talking about it all the
>>  time. People laughed out loud when one student said he was doing a
>>  diss on Tennyson's letters. He was roundly denounced as a complicit
>>  tool of the aestheticizing bourgeoisie.
>>
>>  Doug
>
>I wasn't referring to your grad school, Doug. I was commenting on those here
>who, behind academy gates, plan the next step in workers' control of
>production -- preferably without consulting the workers themselves. Call me
>a boxhead, but some of the jargon on this list is beyond comprehension. Just
>who do these "radicals" think they're reaching?
>
>DP

*****   The backwardness of the United State working class is only a 
relative term.

In very many important respects, it is the most progressive working 
class of the world, technically and in its standard of living....

The American workers are very combative -- as we have seen during the 
strikes.  They have had the most rebellious strikes in the world. 
What the American worker misses is a spirit of generalization, or 
analysis, of his class position in society as a whole.  This lack of 
social thinking has its origin in the country's whole history....

<http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944-fas.htm#p10>   *****

Can you find "jargon" in the above?

Yoshie