[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-03-04 Thread c b
Waistline2 Reply CB I try not to be a hater. There is another aspect of the CPUSA equation which I have spoken about in the past. That is the location of their cadre in heavy industry and the inability of any group to shift their forces to a new front of struggle. Let me be clear. When the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-03-01 Thread c b
waistli...@aol.com 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

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-03-01 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/1/2010 8:20:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB: This doesn't seem to me to be hating on the CP. You are just saying some that is a fact. 1949-1955 is a period of most intense McCarthyism and criminalization of the CP Reply CB I try not

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:43:20 EST waistli...@aol.com writes: Comment I asked myself, why would a human being work a 100 hour week voluntarily? That sort of thing is not or was not uncommon in the high tech world. Seven days 12 hours a day is only 72 hours. Add another 28 hours

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-28 Thread Shane Mage
On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:43:20 EST waistli...@aol.com writes: The real proletariat in America thinks out things very different, and their spontaneous drift to the right barely leads to terrorist acts on this level. Individual terrorism is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-28 Thread Waistline2
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

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-19 Thread c b
From Pen-l CB Speaking of the disaffected... To: pe...@lists.csuchico.edu Message-ID: 19325.46896.2076.361...@blake.zopyra.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A man crashed a plane into an IRS office, in a building next to one I worked in a few years ago. Below my sig is his

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-19 Thread Waistline2
I read this guys suicide letter and here is what he wrote in part. Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn't need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-19 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! This guy reminds me of the Unabomber, also what it means that Americans are totally lacking in political and social consciousness. While other people are just as fucked up in their own ways, white people of this type have a peculiarly

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-19 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 2/19/2010 1:57:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: While other people are just as fucked up in their own ways, white people of this type have a peculiarly apolitical view of their own victimization. They can't see their situation as