From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:26:54 -0500
Subject: Re: AUT: What could "proletarian socialism" possibly mean?


On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:45:11 +0100, Cercle social wrote:
>The books and articles of Seidman explain well
>enough the Spain situation.
>We lack of a comparable analysis for other 20th
>century revolutions, but there are many facts
>that seems converge to explain organized
>socialist movement as a work-fetishist movement.
>In Russia, the militarization of work,
>"communist sunday", lenino-taylorism and so on.
>In China, "Hundreds flowers" as the mobilization
>of workers toward industrialisation (very good
>book from Francis gipoloux on this, but agin in
>French.) . In Cuba, with the "ten millions tons
>zaffra" and Fidel going himself cut sugar cane.
>And so on.

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys a
Eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road

Third boxcar midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found, short but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road

I know every engineer on every train
All the children and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no-one's around
I sing...

Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys a
Eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road

(Roger Miller, "King of the Road")

-- 
Louis Proyect, lnp3-AT-panix.com on 03/13/2002

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