[lbo-talk] latest...

[Carrol Cox]

I read some lengthy article on it someplace but I can't remember any of the
details. For half the year of course work started late and ended early.
Also, I think it was in the late 16th century that hallways were 'invented.'
Before that bedrooms also served as 'hallways' to the next bedroom -- and
for many of course their habitation was a single room. Hence no privacy in
modern sense. (Hence the Reeve's Tale.) There is a very unsatisfactory 5-vol
history of private life, & you get some of these details from it.

On another sub-topic of this thread. A leader of the Chicago Occupation was
on the Chicago workshop panel, and he said their main problem was not
running too far ahead of their allies in the Fightback against the 1% Mayor.
It needed anarchists (of the wilder sort even) to kick the movement into
existence as it were, but as Occupiers in different cities get involved in
various concrete struggles involving many others, a discipline kicks in --
not forced by  outsider kvetching but by the internal dynamic of the
movement: and Graeber or ' the Graeber tendency' gets subordinated. Pure
speculation, but that could cause tension. You can't, for example, keep
dissing public schools if workers at those public schools become the front
line of resistance. It will get 'worse' if workers were able by direct
action to force the "state" to enforce safety regulations. (A sudden
entertaining fantasy: KP was one of the first 'military' functions to be
commodified:  imagine a nation-wide strike by workers in military mess
halls.) 

Carrol
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On May 11, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> I don't doubt that
> sleep, for example, has a different 'meaning' in capitalist society

Speaking of which, someone told me that pre-artificial light people would
frequently get up during the night and visit with friends and/or screw and
then go back to sleep. With artificial light, and no doubt the temporal
discipline of the pig system, this all changed. Has anyone else heard this?

Doug
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