Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 05:10:28 -0500 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: infernal combustion Marxists Russell wrote: >Sorry. >I did wonder about your gender, please accept my apologies for any offence. >Yes, indeed it is sexist male behaviour, and as to your actions on the >subway- good for you, they deserve all they get! Apology accepted. >In Britain poor people are either concentrated in inner city areas or in >large suburban housing estates that keep them out of the way of richer >types. Housing policy is ostensibly very politically correct, but in >practice is racist to the core. The wealthy tend to live in more select >suburbs, or increasingly likely, in the countryside where very small >cottages can comand three times the amount of similar buildings in a less >salubrious setting. Are there any significant struggles about housing and racial segregation going on in Britain now? If so, would you discuss them here? >I tend to agree with James on the left and the state- this I believe is a >failure of imagination since all it asks for is state money to fund state >transport. I'd like to see transport truly revolutionised, though god knows >what forms that might take. I share your criticisms of social democracy (otherwise, I wouldn't be on a list like this.) But that state-funded "reforms" have mixed effects on the working class is not new knowledge. >It's just that the idea of socialism somehow >meaning more buses sticks in my gullet. As to benefitting transport >workers, at the risk of being flippant I guess your knowledge of bus >drivers is rather slim too. I've never met one who enjoyed driving a bus- >it's a means to an end, is socially isolating and physically debilitating. >For taxi drivers it's even worse- a limbo land between unemployment and >work one described it to me as. I think you are right, but a whole lot of jobs under capitalism are like that. And any job under capitalism is a means to an end. So what's new? Yoshie --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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