Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 06:37:55 +0100 (MET)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-G: Re: M-I: Marxists in Unions (Was: Young Workers and Walmart


#1 6:20 am Feb.20 (time and date test)

Dave writes;
>Bob,
>Instead of talking about Mensheviks, Bernsteinians, Lenin, vanguards and
>tribunes, why don't you translate your concepts into a Swedish context?
>Maybe your fellow workers won't think you're crazy.  You say they seem to
>respect you because you don't take shit from the bosses. But they find
>your language incomprehensible though.  How much does that help the
>Swedish left (or the American left)?
>
>Dave Anderson
>(just a democratic socialist library prole in Colorado)....

Well Dave, 
We all try and do our best. I did manage to keep and entire highschool class 
in awn and on the edge of there seats for two hours with both my language 
and politcs. And besides I understand your problem sitting in a library 
somewhere in Colorado! Well,
where i live it is the historical "red" belt of both the Social Democracy 
and the Stalinists. Here the saying goes "shit stinks". And everyday 
language although in Swedish is about the everyday language of the working 
class. They curse,get drunk smoke, fuck you know what i mean. In fact in the 
school the walls in the bathroom are just filled with all those horrible 
language stuff you appear to apall..

Perhaps not! I mean obviously the world you live in sounds very strange. By 
the way the discussion in the class even took up young women with small or 
large breasts and young men with small and large dicks! And this right in 
the middle of colonial wars. imperialism and the question of "You will 
go!"..But then again I doubt that you understand the language. Many of our 
"Socialists","Marxists", "Communists" on the lists obviously come from some 
sort of dream world of victorian rules for talking too each other. 

I can imagine also what your position on lets say Ebonics would be. Oh 
horror of horrors how can they talk like that. Tut Tut and all that old chap 
as he takes his highhat and silk scarf and walses of to the opera...Or 
perhaps in Colorado at least in the library world one talks in a way that a 
normal person would or could only think that you got a silver spoon sticking 
out of your ass. Now don,t get upset Dave. We Prolos certainly won,t and 
don't bite. 

By the way I recieved and Email from the teacher. He loved it! And next week 
we go on to a new Vietnam in Bougainville. He wants to "continue the 
cooperation" and make this a regular theme in the highschool.

Bob Malecki 





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