In a message dated 2/28/2010 2:36:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, _farmela...@juno.com_ (mailto:farmela...@juno.com) writes: He wasn't really even a little capitalist, he was a wananbe at most. In reality, he was just another contract programmer, and as such, lacked the security and benefits that unionized blue collar workers used to enjoy. I agree that it is fucked up to see exploited workers cling so relentlessly to a petit bourgeois consciousness. Reply Perhaps, I was to harsh on this fellow. I did read his letter of protest and it was fairly obvious be was being crushed by big capital. Before returning to Detroit I did live in Texas for a while between Austin and Houston. It was Austin this fellow relocated to discover rates for his business 1/3 of that in California. It is true that for all of my life - up until now, I have had security and benefits of the better paid union workers. My fear is that the Marxist of our generation - no matter what our differences in perspective and ideology, will miss this juncture of history as the CPUSA missed the period of roughly 1949 - 1955 and leadership of the impending social activism will pass into the anti-communist so-called left. Here, I do not speak as a knee jerk hater of the CPUSA. I am not. If there are say 10,000 Marxist in America and we commit to wining over and teaching on a regular basis just 10 people for this year's goal that is 100,000 people who can make an impact. My personal goal is 36 or three a month. At this point it matters little what organization people are involved with. If we get two people who get two more people and open our homes to many of the youth, we win. All of us were won over to the idea of fighting injustice and then Marxism by someone else who spoke up. Yes? WL. WL.
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