Louis writes > > I plan to give Sam's article my full attention but I can't help but think > of what my old friend Elliot told me about his English class at the > Borough of Manhattan Community College, which was made up mostly of Black > and Latino students. He asked them to vote on whether they preferred a USA > in which everybody would have an income that allowed them to live a > comfortable and secure life but did not allow them to become millionaires. > Or would they prefer it to be as it is today, a dog-eat-dog society that > also allowed you to become top dog. The students always voted at least two > to one for the latter. >
And there you have one of the big reasons Marxists in America will always be facing an uphill struggle when trying to instill a sense of class conciousness in the working class. For the last 150 odd years or so even the poorest, most disenfranchized Americans have been fed a fairy story about how capitalism works, that someone does not become the top dog starting with nothing. A business that ends up at the top of the heap usually starts with a big infusion of familiy money. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9220): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9220 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83535999/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
