Right, and if we don't need a weatherman, why do we need them?
Don't follow leaders, watch parking meters.
--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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!)
> >
> . . . .
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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