--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
Lou Proyect:
>Unlike
>
> members of the leisure class like yourself, I have
> to work 45 hours a
> week and often don't have time to go over things as
> carefully as I should.
I love it when certain middle-class leftists such as LP like to play "industrial worker". They usually wear those plaid cotton work shirts, blue jeans, work boots and often wear a cap. When these same middle-class radicals tried to get back to working class roots in the 70s and started showing up in the coal fields of West Virginia where I grew up, they would almost invariably start chewing Red Man Chewing tobacco. It was pretty funny when they tried to speak in a westvirginian accent. I imagine that their bedrooms are decorated with smoke stacks painted on the walls. Lou Proyect is SO downtrodden and, judging from the volumes of email he writes, I doubt he has ever worked 45 hours in his life.
And yes, I am a middle class leftist, but I see no advantage to dressing up like a 1920 industrial worker or crying over my long hours in the mill. Dont see how that liberates anybody, nor do I see how andie nachgeboronen's suit enslaves somebody (except possibly himself...neck ties choke me).
LP has made a career bashing professors and anybody that doesnt "have a real job" as he says. Why in the hell is his network admin (or whatever it is) job at Columbia University any more real than anybody else's job?
Happy Halloween Lou Proyect.
Thomas
===== <<Furthermore, we must ask what does the dialectician want? What does this will which wills the dialectic want? It is an exhausted force which does not have the strength to affirm its difference, a force which no longer acts but rather reacts to the forces which dominate it-only such a force brings to the foreground the negative element in its relation to the other. Such a force denies all that it is not and makes this negation its own essence and the principle of its existence.>> -Gilles Deleuze "Nietzche & Philosophy"
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