It is no joke. It is very hard place to be in -- that is to see the capitalist underpinnings of disabled peoples plight and then realize no lefties are or have really written about it. But I have to tell you that LBO published something along these lines from me <smile>, so did Monthly Review, Socialist Register and I'm working on others. So much of the lack of a materialist approach comes from the fact that most disability movement folks (except my comrades in Britain) have focused on civil rights -- operating from a liberal, not radical perspective. After all it is up to us crips to spew our own theorizing but then someone needs to read it and to take it seriously.
Since Sociology has cast us in a medicalized role, we've had to get past all the patronizing professionals who have controlled our realities with their views about impairment. And guess who lots of those people are? The lefties protesting wars.
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>All you anti-demo types in your diversity - Nathan, Thoams, Chuck0 -
>what organizational/agitational strategy you proposing to stop the
>war? Knocking on doors? Roving bands of masked persons?
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Its still close to Halloween, what about really scaring them and emailing the White House. BOO! marta
-- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org