On Apr 25, 2010, at 8:46 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 11:10 PM 4/25/2010, martin wrote:
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>> On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:30 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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>> > i agree with julio. if you don't have a marxist/heavy user of marxish analysis of social problems, then you aren't a leftist.
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>> Bored?
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>> I'll bite.
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>> I would have closed that sentence with 'you aren't an academic.'
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>> martin
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> the woman teaching the course on the ways employers destroy worker solidarity is a secretary at a state university making $29k/year at a state university. the guy who got the whole thing off the ground? he works at walmart for $20k. the woman teaching the feminist class is an anarchist who lives off the grid and doesn't work for pay at all.
If you 'have a marxist/heavy user of marxish analysis of social problems' you've probably studied marx, and from my POV that suggests academic interest. I've worked with lots of folks who understand labor without studying marx. (gotta go wiki david horowitz)
martin