Louis Proyect
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:26:51 -0800
Yoshie: >>If you run into any of these people, you can put a hungry wolverine in >>their underwear for me. > >There is no shortage of workerists here, on LBO-talk, & on your list, >from you to Wojtek who otherwise have little in common. >Intellectuals' love-hate relationship with being intellectuals, which >unfortunately emerges as contempt toward other intellectuals & >workerism that turns off manual laborers from socialism. My general attitude toward intellectuals is positive if you mean by this people who read and think and write without being paid for it. Those are the only intellectuals who count in my book. The so-called "organic intellectuals". Charles Bukowski has a great story about the scary aftermath of a drunken party at his house. After everybody has gone home, this guy from the party shows up. It was somebody who he had never met before. It turns out the guy was deranged and still drunk. He told Bukowski that he came back to kill him. He had plenty of experience, having served in Nam. Bukowski said that he wasn't impressed. If he was a serious killer, he would have done it for free like most of the people in prison. When you get paid for killing, you aren't all that dedicated. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org