Date: 22 Mar 97 23:05:54 EST
From: jonathan flanders <72763.2240-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: Affirmative Action


 >>  Instead of proletarian revolutionaries struggling to fulfil IDENTICAL ROLES
IN THE COMMON STRUGGLE AGAINS THE IMPERIALIST STATE TO THOSE OF THEIR MENFOLK,
they are trying to educate the working women into plaintive and tearful eternal
victims deserving of  special bourgeois state-sponsored and imperialist state
enforced larguesse and privileges! <<Adolpho O.

 Jon Flanders:

  Louis, if Adolpho wishes to defend rubbish like this about affirmative
action, he ought to come back to this list. I don't think we should play
some sort of list-tag.

  I do thank you for posting it though. It makes it clear to me that his
viewpoint understands nothing about the dynamic of the struggle for
affirmative action in the workplace, and its importance for all oppressed
sectors of capitalist society. 

  To think that women are ever going to get to play on an even playing
field in the workplace, without a battle for affirmative action which will take
on the good-ole-boy nepotism network that preserves all the good jobs for men,
is absurd. This has nothing to do with educating women to be tearful victims. As
my companion and wife could tell you, it involves searing battles with working
men who side with the bosses again and again in defense of THEIR special
privileges. The women who carry on this battle day in and day out get as tough
as nails. Victims indeed!

  The only tears I see being shed are by backward male workers crying 
about their uncle not being able to get them into a place 'cause the 
company had to hire women and minorities. Jon Flanders, using OzWin 2.12.1



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