But these two lines: "And I don't mind payin' taxes" ... and "Cause there's a whole lot more of us common-folks Then there ever will be of you"
Those two lines shouldn't be ignored. Marx, in his letter to Arnold Ruge, would have said we need to keep working on the two ideas, the ones he chose to end that song with (important positioning in lyrics). We need to advance the struggles and wishes of the age. With a simple dismisal of his in-yer-face, "Fuck you, you're the enemy" we only belittle people further and fuel the fires of resentment.
We're talking about that on the blog right now, given some wars that have broken out over voice, identity, representation, and building activist communities among feminists. In this case, we're talking about the way white racist and US imperialist version of feminist thought silence and exclude women of color, contributing to some women's sense that feminism does not speak to their lives and often feels like part of the problem.
As for Zizek, I just busted a got over the fact that ex-lax is not made of chocolate but is _chocolate-flavored_. How he missed that one was beyond me. I mean, come on, FLAVORED, he could have done so much with that.
But, if this were getting out to a different audience I'd say, cool. I posted it at the blog. Someone will read it. It may have made them stop dead in the tracks and say, "wow!" or "aha!" It might have been something they'd never thought of before. Or, maybe they had -- but no one said it before. Sometimes, people are looking for someone else that "gets it".
I can remember those articles -- agitprop really -- make a big difference in my life when I was 19.
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