[lbo-talk] dreaming in public

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Fri Dec 9 03:40:39 PST 2011


sure. we are all busy, getting old, and personally I've been absent minded since I was three.

I think the thing to do is to maybe be a lot less CERTAIN when you are posting under such conditions. Words like "maybe" or "could it be" or "i'm not sure, but it seems like..."

<> That post should cause lots of glorious confusion for anyone reading <> in the <> archives! Poor vision + carelessness + (Old Man) Absent Mindedness <> all <> wrapped up in a crowded day. <> <> Carrol <> <> -----Original Message----- <> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org <> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] <> On Behalf Of shag carpet bomb <> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 2:20 PM <> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org <> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] dreaming in public <> <> what are you talking about Carrol? The post by Aaron Bady was about <> the student and instructor protest at the UC campuses. what did you <> read in that article to prompt this? <> <> ?? <> <> shag <> <> <> The primary fact abut any college or university is that it is a <> place <> <> where <> <> working-class people earn a living (and faculty is included in <> <> working <> <> class). Any attack on the university is therefore, first of all, an <> <> attack <> <> on the working class. Any statement abut faculty which compares <> their <> <> conditions to the conditions of other workers anyplace in the world <> is <> <> an <> <> attack on the whole working class, and hence whatever the <> intentions <> <> of the <> <> speaker or writer that person is engaged in a defense of <> capitalism,. <> <> <> <> Such comparisons are pissing contests, one of the major elements in <> <> working-class disunity. It is the same thing as saying women are <> worse <> <> off <> <> than Latinos, or Latinos are worse off than Indian peasants. <> <> <> <> I'm not reading what others have to say on this thread . . . I'm <> <> afraid of <> <> becoming personally contemptuous of people I respect. <> <> <> <> I regard respect for university workers as a matter of principle. <> <> Which side <> <> are you on? <> <> <> <> Carrol <> <> <> <> ___________________________________ <> <> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <> <> <> <> <> -- <> http://cleandraws.com <> Wear Clean Draws <> ('coz there's 5 million ways to kill a CEO) <> <> <> ___________________________________ <> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <> <> ___________________________________ <> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <>

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