Louis Proyect
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:39:09 -0800
>The problem is not Cuba but the workerist romanticization of manual >labor _amongst leftist -- including Marxist -- intellectuals in rich >nations_. I'm saying that workerists are out of touch with actual >manual laborers, who in fact long for more time to read books, enjoy >movies, have intellectual conversations, dream of sexual fulfillment, >etc. -- all of which workerists sneer at as if they were luxuries out >of keeping with socialism. > >Yoshie If you run into any of these people, you can put a hungry wolverine in their underwear for me. Frankly, I think it is a waste of time to blather on about whether educated people should or should not dig ditches in capitalist society for the "good of their soul". My only interest in these sorts of questions is based on the importance of intellectuals being integrated into socially necessary manual work in developing societies that have just overthrown capitalism. A rather arcane subject, I know, but one that is of intense interest to me. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org