Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 2:09 PM, MM  > wrote:
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> The Rochester book doesn’t seem to be available on line

Okay, wrong again. The book is here:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89096994983 


The story opens Ch. 1 on page 11.

The author has her own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Rochester 



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Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:50 PM, MM  wrote:
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> I stand corrected; Sherwood incorporates it in his poem, but it has an older 
> source, mentioned here:

Okay, it’s mentioned in Leontiev’s “Political Economy: A Beginner's Course” 
(1935), attributed to “A. Rochester, Labour and Coal, p. 11, International 
Publishers, New York, 1931.” The Rochester book doesn’t seem to be available on 
line, but here’s the passage from Leontiev:

--
The following passage is taken from a book describing the life of miners in 
America:

“A miner's son asked his mother: 'Why don't you light the fire? It's so cold.'

“'Because we have no coal.· Your father is out of work, and we have no money to 
buy coal.’

“'But why is he oul of work, mother?’

“'Because there's loo much coal.’"

This conversation excellently portrays the glaring contradiclion which becomes 
evident during every capitalist crisis. The family of the coal miner freezes 
because "loo much" coal has been mined from the bowels of the earth. Millions 
of people go hungry because "loo much" bread has been produced and wheal is 
therefore used for locomotive fuel. The unemployed and their families are 
without sheller because "loo many" honses have been built which are therefore 
standing vacant.
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Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:43 PM, MM  wrote:
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> It’s from Kenneth Sherwood, Code of Signals:

I stand corrected; Sherwood incorporates it in his poem, but it has an older 
source, mentioned here:

"One story told in the mine fields during the 1920s underscored the fundamental 
problem. A miner's son asked his mother, "Why don't you light the fire? It's so 
cold." "Because we have no coal. Your father is out of work, and we have no 
money to buy coal." "But why is he out of work, Mother?" "Because there's too 
much coal.””

http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-2C0

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:43 PM, MM  wrote:
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>> On Jun 27, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>> mailto:marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>> wrote:
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>> Does anybody know this poem?
> 
> It’s from Kenneth Sherwood, Code of Signals:
> 
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/kenneth-sherwood/code-of-signals/paperback/product-23210945.html
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PDF here: http://kennethsherwood.com/CodeOfSignals/CodeOfSignals-sample.pdf

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