David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 13 12:48:29 PST 2002


Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote:


>It just occurred to me what Jenny is trying to do in these posts. She is
>trying to get wage workers to do her dirty-work for her, to do the practical,
>analytical, and theoretical work necessary to justify the oppression of wage
>workers in the eyes of the bourgeoisie. Historically, it has been the
>oppressed who have taken up the cudgels to dutifully ease their oppressor's
>consciousness, whether in the form of the minstrelsy of black slaves in the
>South, the factory songs of the first industrial workers in the North,
>working women forced to pretend they enjoy the additional unpaid menial labor
>while legally getting raped by their spouses, the alienated white
>bourgeoisie's children putting their aspirations onto black workers in the
>'60s migrating into cities. Now Jenny seems to want workers who are
>struggling even for the right to legally organize to do her shit-work of
>convincing her neighbors and her bosses. Well, you know what, Jenny? Fuck it.
>Workers, women, and people of color don't owe you any explanation for their
>oppression, let alone your alienation. Get your own hands dirty and figure
>your own personal shit out for yourself.

Wow, man, you say some weird shit. But this takes the cake. Where in heaven's name did you get this from?

Doug



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