Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 23:08:29 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Baby Huey's Diaper Load
To: rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu




Dear J.B.:

I did it again.  Well, this time, I'm not going to try to resubscribe
to the list.  So, no duplication will occur.  If you can forward this,
my last message (no, really) to the list, let me know.  If not, I
quite understand.  (Let me know in that case, too.)

Thanks for all the help,

Mark Adkins (emerald-AT-aztec.asu.edu)  --  Aztec is a public FREENET
run with ASU's cooperation, incidentally.
 
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Hugh Rodwell wrote, justifying Stalinism and its Leninist precursor:

>The Soviet option was to continue to enforce the dictatorship of the
>proletariat or perish as a workers' state.
 
The Soviet Union was never a "workers' state."  Rulership by a Party
cadre and a tiny portion of the workers (the "advanced class" of militant
factory workers, itself already decimated by civil war) in the name of
the workers, does not constitute a workers' state.

>Mark Adkins has no stake whatsoever in the emancipation of the
>working class.

None whatever except the fact that I belong to it, and in a position
which places me near the bottom of it.  My lot in life at this point
can consist of little more than minimum or low-wage jobs for unskilled
labor.  Exactly what stake do YOU have in the "emancipation of the
working class"?  I'll bet you're a college graduate, and probably
have some cushy, well paying university job.  

The primary difference between us, I think, is that your idea of
"emancipation" consists of a tyrannical dictatorship run by
elitist pimples like you, whereas mine consists of a more genuine,
egalitarian democracy.

--
"Love -- it's not just a good idea: it's the law."    -- Aleister Crowley

Mark Adkins (emerald-AT-aztec.asu.edu)


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