In These Times

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• • 20 Mar 06
  • 9:53 pm

  Obesity and starvation now side by side in the third world. A physiological mirror of the images of high rises and shanytowns only a few miles apart.

  Posted to Globesity en Español

• • 17 Sep 05
  • 12:51 am

  O.K so this is not your average article. It's not easy to unerstand frankly. The issue I think is that race divides workers and keeps all of them down. By accepting the idea of race, and whiteness, many white workers see a greater affinity with the white borgeoisie that with non-white workers. THat helps explain why white workers would act so much against their core economic interests. For example there was a switch in party loyalty among many white workers towards the Republican party in the 1980's. By succumbing to the race baiting they screw themselves in the ass. I think …

  Posted to The History of a Bad Idea

• • 17 Sep 05
  • 7:27 pm

  Scorp, I'm not a liberal, I was just trying to understand a bizarre article. I don't believe that workers vote in thier interests regardless of who they vote for. The choice isn't between left and right, or between the European and American pholosophies. Workers get fucked either way. I'll argue against leftists and rightists form a proletarian standpoint. I'm for workers running the show themselves through thier own organisations. VOting is tatamount to electing your exploiter. However, the workers who vote for the left, at least vote for politicians that claim to represent thier economic interests. If they are fooled by …

  Posted to The History of a Bad Idea

• • 22 Aug 05
  • 2:42 pm

  "We" did not invade Iraq. The U.S invaded Iraq. Why is the U.S.A "we"? Why identify with state power? Why can't "we" be the workers of the world, who happen to have the same core interests, which don't include invading anyone? When leftists use the terms "we", "us", "our" etc, they often mean some country, race, or tribe. "We" are the producers of the world's wealth, not the different ruling cliques and wannabe rulers be they Bushes, Blairs, Husseins, Castros, Putins, al-Sadrs, Bin Ladens (you get my drift, and whatever entity they represent. Anyone who falls into the ideological trap of …

  Posted to End it Already

• • 23 Aug 05
  • 1:53 am

  lostlib: Genetically, all humans are essentially the same. However in our world there are two classes whose selfish interests are diametrically opposed to each other. I’m not inventing an evil “other”; this is reality. I don't believe that humans in our present world can act in a utopian, selfless, KUMBAYA way. But I'm not as pessimistic as you are. I believe that solidarity and class unity are in the workers' self-interest. It is in their interest not to be used as cannon fodder in imperialist wars. It is not in their interest to exploit anyone. The salvation of humanity will not …

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