[lbo-talk] Obama got Osama

[Carrol Cox]

This is well put. Even some who mostly represent the enemy wer paying their respects yesterday to our dead at the Rededication of the Haymarket Memorial in Forest Home, Illinois. Who would have thoughnt a few months ago that a Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO woul be on the same plartfrom with a self-described undocumented migrant, speaking under the red flag even. (Yes, Red is the color of Laboar, not just of Reds -- but still!) And listen to the president of the Illiinois Laboar History Socieity point out that the 140d+ buried  adjacent to theHaymarket memorial included anarchists, communists, Spanish Civil War veterans -- and thata they all had struggled for human freedom. (Incidentally -- not a single American flag in sight, though there were plenty of tributes to "American Ideals" etc.) The last words at sentencing of the Haymarket martayrs were read; we heard of Lucy Parsons speaking in Chicago in the 1930s.; all speakers (including the many Labaor dignitaraies) emphasized that May Day was the real labaor day. Quite impressive all in all.

  

Carrol

  

P.S. Interesting stat on Forest Home:

  

Graveyard population: 550,000

Living population: 10,000.

  

P.S. 2. Driving throgy Maywood we noted the Fred Hampton Memoral Boullevard.   (Exact name from a cloudy memory.)

  

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On 5/2/2011 12:51 PM, Joshua Morey wrote: let's not forget that while a couple thousand idiots disturbingly pounded their chests in patriotic stupor last night and today, hundreds of thousands of idiots in the US (and millions across the world) celebrated solidarity, demanded rights, etc yesterday, from the largest cities to the smallest towns - immigrant workers, unions, working people of all stripes marching together ... not that you'd know from watching/listening to the news, and for good reason.

  

It seems to me that the American Idiocy thesis implies a corresponding thesis - that the preacher of such a thesis is exceptional and permitted to despair and mock rather than do anything about the hopeless state of the idiots (which Alan describes quite well).

  

I'm not sure that's the card that will cause the house to crumble.

  

Finally, thank you Dennis for capturing so eloquently what many of my friends and i have struggled to put to words.

  

J