File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0106, message 53


From: "Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: introduction
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:24:42 +1000


hi all

Sharon Vance wrote:

>What is seems to me, and I can see it from my job too, is that people are
>not willing to challenge capital until their jobs are on the line, until
>they personally are about to take a severe pay cut or even loose their 
>jobs.

That may well be true in the present period but the revolts of the sixties 
came at the end of a long boom that saw the material benefits of economic 
growth go to workers much more than has been the case in recent 'booms'. 
Didn't the Situationists talk about materially enriched poverty.

Pete

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