[lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 17 11:21:28 PDT 2007


On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:25 AM, B. wrote:


> Not sure why it's "very funny" since all the piece did
> was say US workers should be opposed to an ivasion of
> Iran, not that US workers were "better" than Iranian
> ones in anyway whatsoever. I don't see anything wrong
> with that (afaik, you even agree with this yourself!)
>
> But whatever, Yoshie.

Yoshie has clearly embraced a "Maoist" view of the US working class as hopelessly deracinated and reactionary, with a material interest in imperialism. The revolutionary vanguard now consists of largely unemployed residents of slums in the Middle East who follow Islamist clerics - they're the logical successors to the various revolutionary subjects of recent decades - in Vietnam, then Latin America, then American prisons, etc. They always disappoint, so there always has to be a new revolutionary subject, and never one close by.

Doug ************ Or a variation on an old RYM-I theme, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

Mike B) http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/2005/12/weather-underground-film-review-by.html

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