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Hi Mike, Ehrenreich talks at length about her working class upbringing and her father's unusual trajectory out of the mines in her memoir, Living with a Wild God. http://www.amazon.com/Living-Wild-God-Nonbelievers-Everything/dp/1455501743 We must write with and for the poor and working class. We must assist them in forging their own organic intellectuals, writers, organizers and leaders. This does not pay well, but it is essential for praxis. Best, Brian On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Michael Yates via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > That last paragraph says everything about why I don't care much for > Ehrenreich or her writing. Also, it is ridiculous to say that only the rich > can write about poverty. Plus the key is to write for the poor, the general > working class, and the like, not about them. And find ways to teach workers > or connect to them one way or another. And to consider yourself a worker > too. > Maybe someone can enlighten me, but her Wikipedia entry says her dad was a > copper miner in Butte, Montana. But then it says he went on to university > in Montana and then to Carnegie Mellon University, and later became a top > official of Gillette Corporation. This just doesn't jive. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mckennab%40umich.edu > -- Brian McKenna, Ph.D. Department of Behavioral Sciences CASL 4025 Dearborn, Michigan _________________________________________________________ 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
