On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:01 PM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote: > It is different in this way. The guy who replied to the fellow complaining > about unions advised the complainer to join > the class struggle and win benefits from capital. He should not complain but > see the union members as a model. The > Fox news fellow just says that the rich deserve what they get you should not > be fighting the rich and capital at all. That > is you are a bad guy involved in nasty class warfare. The other chap is > saying that you are a worker like me and you > can do what I am doing and should.
My larger point remains: the average working class person should not expect any solidarity or empathy leave alone substantial material support for their own struggles. Everyone is on their own. We should all just be grateful to those better off for whatever benefits trickle down to us from their success and their example as inspirational role-models. It seems to me that the labor aristocracy is united with the capitalists in giving this message to the little guy. > The parallel answer from the Fox news side would be not to talk of class > warfare but to say that in the U.S. every one > has a chance to be rich and successful not to talk about class warfare but > the American Dream etc. etc. > Everyone can be a Horatio Alger. Well of course they say that too. If you find this to be a better analogy, fine. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
