From: "Peter J. Havas" <Zaphod-AT-noos.fr> Subject: AUT: Re: Re: Stagism? Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:09:59 -0700 Commie00 Malraux contended that being proletarian was a will. I believe this. Certainly all of us (with few exceptions) are workers of one type or the other. What I am taking issue with is the automatic organization of workers in a "class" structure, (which I feel itself is artificial) dubbed the "proletariat". It seems to me that such an identity is as contradictory as nationality. Even in communist society there are workers. Why is this status not "forced" upon them as well in this social context? If, indeed, the will of the proletariat was not to be so, the end result of revolution would the elimination of the working "class" instead of the pan-geographic perpetuation of it. I feel that the object of revolution is lost by this concentration on "class", but freely admit, at present I have no adequate substitute. Outside the nationalist sphere, a good model would be collective tribalism: All members performing their functions within the social structure, to the exclusion only of other tribes. Peter --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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