Re: Sowell and the big lie.

[sartesian]

I'll eat Mr. Sowell alive and my brother would bury him for sure.     Peace   Melvin __________________________   Cue the brother:   Brother Melvin puts some fire to the feet of the ideological tap dancers of capital, and the dancers head towards the emergency exits,  protesting the harsh language.  Meanwhile, fire or no fire, their, the tap dancers', feet stink.     But the facts of matters are that my brother Melvin is teaching a lesson-- that rhetoric obscures reality, and the reality is class struggle.     The purveyors of the rhetoric of free markets,  greed and god, have not themselves shied away from apologizing, excusing, the physical attacks upon the poorer members of society by the agents of the wealthier-- agents such as the police, the military, the secret and not so secret night-riders.    "It's unfortunate," is offered, which means, as with everything else offered by the ideological soft shoe/hard boot men, "It's really the fault of those uncouth, unwashed, demanding poor, who just won't accept that this is all for their own benefit. But we must preserve order."    You tell me if you haven't heard that, or its equivalent, coming out of the mouths of Gilderites, Randists, Friedmaniacs, Von Miserabilists.    What is the reality of capital at its critical moments? -- Attacks on the workers.  Thatcher dismantling British Steel; shuttering the coal mines.  The dirty war in Argentina, with Daimler Benz auto plants used as ghost prisons; with Ford pointing out "troublemakers."    But no, some would rather discuss hypothetical revenue sharing in Simon and Garfunkel concerts without realizing that the expropriation begins not in the work of the roadies, but the very production of the amps, the guitars, the costumes, the lights, that make the social, commerical, presentation of such a concert possible.   Give me Brother Melvin and his fire in the belly  every time.  And I'll  bring the shovel.          ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Sowell and the big lie. In a message dated 7/2/2004 6:42:37 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Godwin's Law approaches, I am done with the thread.    David Shemano   Comment   I understand  . . . but there are times I speak as an insurgent partisan. I would debate Mr. Sowell in front of the people who actually have elected me to offices . . . offices . . . on things like the military budget.   I am not a liberal or leftist. I am a communist worker who is not ashamed of the path I traveled from Christ communism to modern communism. And more than capable of presenting coherent arguments to masses. I do not advocate dividing one fish amongst 40 people.   I do believe and can convince the diverse peoples of American that the billions of dollars cycling through the circuit of speculation could be better spend on real things like health care, hot dogs and child care for the majority of the workers who happen to be women.   If you cannot spend a billion dollars then I am not advocating taking anything from you but an abstraction that is wealth that means nothing to the multitude. I am not interested in expropriating ones rather large mansion . . . because I refuse to be responsible for the administrative task of a mansion. You hire a cook and have to feed him to cook the food that feeds you. And then the cook have to feed his or her family and the cycle deepens. You slowly discover that the people you have hired are actually making you work to pay them.   OK!     There is some deeper logic and morality to society that does not always match our noble aspirations and ideological proclamations.   I'll eat Mr. Sowell alive and my brother would bury him for sure.     Peace   Melvin P.