[lbo-talk] "Marxist" Preys to Racism

[Carrol Cox]

EverYoung Global Intellectual Enterprises wrote:
> 
> Workers have no country, no motherland, no nationality, no national culture
> and other phantoms to worship and lay their lives for.

I agree with the principles for practice this implies, but to put it
into practice you have to recognize that the Communist Manifesto was
seriously wrong in predicting that in empirical fact workers would have
no country. They ought not to, but for better or worse they do in
practice, and strategies have to be developed to take account of this
contradiction. I don't have the slightest idea as to what those
strategies will be, though they probably involve Yoshie's attitude
towards Iran rather than the attitude of those who have had kittens over
her posts on Iran.

Carrol