Re: IWW piece on Iranian labor situation
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:25 AM, B. wrote:
Not sure why it’s “very funny” since all the piece did was say US workers should be opposed to an ivasion of Iran, not that US workers were “better” than Iranian ones in anyway whatsoever. I don’t see anything wrong with that (afaik, you even agree with this yourself!)
But whatever, Yoshie.
Yoshie has clearly embraced a “Maoist” view of the US working class
as hopelessly deracinated and reactionary, with a material interest
in imperialism. The revolutionary vanguard now consists of largely
unemployed residents of slums in the Middle East who follow Islamist
clerics - they’re the logical successors to the various revolutionary
subjects of recent decades - in Vietnam, then Latin America, then
American prisons, etc. They always disappoint, so there always has to
be a new revolutionary subject, and never one close by.
Doug