Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:43:21 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Sex, Law, Rape, and the State


Carrol wrote:
>ASCME embodies the contradiction in its very membership. The overwhelming
>proportion of its members perform governmental functions and are part of
>the proletariat. But it also includes *prison guards* in its membership,
>and prison guards are declassed, servants of the capitalist state power.
>Similarly, there is continual political and ideological pressure on social
>workers and teachers to serve state (police) power, which undercuts their
>proper social functions.

Indeed. And those pressures are in many ways becoming intensified.
California's Prop. 187 was an explicit attempt to turn teachers, health
care workers, etc. into informants for the INS.

Yoshie




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