>To let the light of facts onto some people's views on the so-called
>lumpen, I assumed Angelus Novus's posting was to introduce us to
>this reality in Western Europe, specifically NE Germany:
>http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1963238.ece
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Its a worry. Saw it on the news myself, that's where I got the quote from the neonazis, insisting that everyone will work when they get their way. However, that Independent article doesn't scapegoat the unemployed, portraying them all as nazi sub-humans, like the article Angelus sent.
This casual linking of people in poverty to neo-nazi extremists chanting "Sieg Heil" is quite as dangerous as the neo-nazis themselves.
>++++++++++++++++
>It's the confidence of those guys that amazes me. And they are
>youths. The local socialists where I am are almost a pensioners
>club.
But are they unemployed? Do they represent the unemployed?
Back in the 30's the Communist Party made a big effort to organise the unemployed. Even as recently as the 70's and 80's the commos and the anarchists were willing to get their hands dirty doing the same thing. Your local socialist pensioners club may be frightened by the talk about all the unemployed being neo-nazis, but they aren't. Just as most of them weren't commos in the 1930's.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas