File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1996/96-06-marxism/96-06-26.161, message 238


Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:04:50 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Cockroach Socialism


>Some intellectuals will sneer at the workers, tell them to learn first
>how to type apostrophs before they make decisions that affect the
>whole economy. Others will give them helpful hints, and criticisms
>which are not putdowns.
>
>If we cannot integrate Robert Malecki in a productive way into our
>joint efforts on this list, how can we claim to be in favor of a
>worker-controlled economy?
>
>Hans Ehrbar.

This is profoundly condescending, Hans. In case you weren't aware, there
are a whole bunch of working class members (including factory workers) on
this list. Most of them put forth some effort to make their posts coherent
and (more or less) substantive. Many don't bother too much with typos, but
they don't lose their entire meaning in a swamp of bad grammar and
misspelling. You seem to be of the opinion that a worker must come off as
an idiot, as Malecki does. I, on the other hand, consider that the
intellectual caliber most of them show is considerably higher than that of
certain muddle-headed Marxist philosophers.

Rahul




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