[g8-sheffield] Oppenly Classist..

[Dan]

Sorry, rant coming up.

Class war?  Eh?  Which classes?  What is the working class, exactly?  It 
seems to me the rest of the world, apart from maybe you and a few 
others, have managed to notice that the gradations of human societies 
are about as easy to stick into 'working class - middle class' as your 
average eco-system...

Am I working class?  I work.  Sometimes.  Are you?  You're on state 
benefits.  Do you need four middle class grandparents to be middle class 
maybe?  (After all, that was how the Nazis worked out if you were too 
Jewish to survive...)

And is there anything common between a British office worker and someone 
in and Export Processing Zone in South East Asia?  How does calling them 
both working class help change the world?  Maybe you're hoping someone 
will cast the scales from their eyes with their damascan 
class-consciousness revelations, and they'll discover the Matrix-like 
reality of capitalism, and that in reality they're all one fraternal 
global proletariat... wait on, dude.

And what about the local people who run computer firms or steel works, 
or Beanies, or New Roots, or Sheffield Co-op Development Group, or 
Wrigleys Solicitors, or CDI co-operatives who run co-op housing, or 
Sheffield Homes who don't?  Could we maybe need something more nuanced 
than 'middle class - working class' there, do you think?  How do they 
compare to the companies trading in Coltan, or selling arms, or hiring 
out private armies and 'interrogation contractors' in Iraq?

Ah, they're probably all equally evil.  Probably all should be first 
against the wall - Beanies co-op workers next to the Arms Dealers.

... or the (almost completely middle class) Intermediate Technology 
Development Group, who are working hard to give Africans back their own 
means of production?  Yeah - let's have a war with them too!  (Coz war 
means people being killed, in case anyone's forgot.  That's people, 
flesh and blood as you, not eggs - we're not making omelettes, here.)

Can all of them be stuck into two categories - one side good, the other 
evil?  Christ - it's like listening to George Bush, or possibly George 
Lucas.  You're either with us, or you're with the petit bourgeoisie.  
Setting up your own business or co-op?  That way the dark side lies,  
yeeees...

I look forward to the day when the revolution comes, and we want to go 
and protest in London about something.

I asked a revolutionary Bolshevik once, "If the vanguard gets power, and 
we don't like it and want to go and protest, where will we hire the 
coaches from?  Will the government be supplying them?"  He replied,  "ah 
well, you see - there'll be no need to protest any more."

Dan
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zerosevenfour two wrote:

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> yes dan class is a means to subdegate all of humanity and take us from 
> our mother this earth.. however if simply say that class is there to 
> subdegate we ignore the very real plight and fight of that class the 
> working class. i have no intrest in what or why the g8 are in 
> sheffield. the reson i can not leave this alone to my own cost and the 
> very cost to friendships is because of my love for the working class. 
> it will the working class who the police will use there new found 
> confidance and powers upon. it will then become part of folk law how 
> the middle class was so midley pissed upon. but part of histstory how 
> the powers of section 14 and so fourth was further used to fuck over 
> the working class. therfor this for me is an issue of class and 
> becomes a class war..
>
> mozaz.
>
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