Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 3:43:04 EDT From: boddhisatva <foucault-AT-eden.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: Nonrevolutionary times -Reply Ms. Rogers, In the "where angels fear to tread" category, I nominate the following : unions. If half-wit fascists can drum up support (and ammonium nitrate) with bizarre fantasies of Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno subjugating the white male under their liberal-feminazi-gun-grabbin' thumbs, and Newt can conjure Kafka-esque images of the "welfare-state" bureacracies sucking in civil liberties like a political black hole (I really can never get over how he can possibly obviate the fact that welfare beneficiaries don't, for the most part, vote), then certainly socialists can ask the question : Who controls your life from 9 to 5 and why are they entitled to do it ? Remember the hay Perot made from "You are the owners of the country. (now get the hell off my lawn)" ? What if we gave people a way to REALLY own the country ? Follow the money. Get the bastards where they live. Suck up their profits and take their corporations away from them share by share. Forget "what kind of society". We'll sort that out when we get the thing home and in the garage. Strike 'em, boycott 'em, strike down their anti-trust exemptions and their "right to work" laws, get on the board, amend their corporate charters, open the airwaves to free (in both senses) political debate, pull the lobbyist weasels out of their sub-comittee burrows and stamp on their heads, LBO them, sue them, secondary boycott them, tertiary boycott them, fill the executive washroom with rabid bats, TAX the bastards. Okay, so maybe the rabid bats thing was a little over the top, but seriously, hadn't we better tend to this "workers control the means of production" thing before we start a socialist constitutional congress ? Besides, democracy is a chaotic system, you CAN'T predict the outcome. Ask Steve Keens, he'll tell ya. So there you have it, Roll the dice and move your rabid bats, uhh,.. mice, I mean. peace --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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