Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:46:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: changes in US labor


On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Scott Marshall wrote:

> Those on the sidelines 'debating' the details and pontificating will be on
> the sidelines debating and pontificating. In the position of yelling, "Wait,
> there go the masses, don't they know I'm supposed to be in front." You have
> to see and understand not only what is new and developing, but you must see
> and understand it as a process. There is some real energy flowing here.
> Armchairs are comfortable places but not very dynamic. 

Louis Proyect:
Scott, I wish there were at least 25,000 more like you in the American 
labor movement. I regard you as a true worker-communist.

But sniping at college professors, computer programmers like myself and 
other non-proletarian elements doesn't really advance the class struggle. 
The American revolution, if and when it comes, will include many leaders 
from the middle-class. Fidel Castro was a lawyer, so was Lenin. If and 
when major shifts in the class struggle take place in the United States, 
I would entertain a major shift in my own life. In the meantime, I'm 
going to continue working on Unix databases, posting to the Internet and 
making liberal use of the Columbia libraries.


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