[lbo-talk] Gustave Flaubert wrote....

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 11 17:29:05 PDT 2007


Recently came upon these lines from Carl Sandburg's 1936 _The Peoples, Yes_, that I'd never seen before. And discovered he was once a member of the IWW, which I also didn't know:

THE PEOPLE, YES

[...]

The people so often sleepy, weary, enigmatic, is a vast huddle with many units saying: "I earn my living I make enough to get by and it takes all my time. If I had more time I could do more for myself and maybe for others. I could read and study and talk things over and find out about things. It takes time. I wish I had the time."

The people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom and gorilla twist- ing to moan with a gargoyle mouth: "They buy me and sell me ... it's a game ... sometime I'll break loose..."

[...]

-B.

Mike Ballard wrote:

"Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom." from a letter to George Sand in 1867 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/flaubert/gustave/f58g/

"Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth." http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml



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