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The hugely underrated book, Going Postal by Mark Ames, makes the connection between guys like the UPS shooter (sorry don't know his name) and James Hodgkinson explicit and undercuts any pat "deranged guy" or white male privilege gone wrong scenario. While stronger unions cannot do anything but help, as the case studies show, inept and bureaucratic unions can actually hurt as the individual feels let down by the company and betrayed by the union. Work and rage violence, like riots, are acts of rebellion, however politically confused or inchoate or reactionary they may be. They are rarely seen as politically motivated by the observers of the time as hegemonic protest repertoires borne of the middle class, blind the professional managerial elite of that class who can only imagine that it is madness that behind such violence. Co-workers nearly always say otherwise as the record shows; they often expect violence, but are also often surprised by who "snaps". Ames makes the connection to the literature during the period of Nat Turner and John Brown, who both communed with God about what actions they should take. We now brush aside those details and see them driven by the madness of slavery. We are now brushing aside the fact that modern day rage killings stem from a deep satisfaction with how society is organized, not loss of privilege or some other cause rooted in the dysfunction of the individual. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
