Re: [Marxism] UPS worker shoots 3 fellow workers & himself

[Jeffrey Masko via Marxism]

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The hugely underrated book, Going Postal by Mark Ames, makes the connection
between guys like the UPS shooter (sorry don't know his name) and James
Hodgkinson explicit and undercuts any pat "deranged guy" or white male
privilege gone wrong scenario. While stronger unions cannot do anything but
help, as the case studies show, inept and bureaucratic unions can actually
hurt as the individual feels let down by the company and betrayed by the
union.

Work and rage violence, like riots, are acts of rebellion, however
politically confused or inchoate or reactionary they may be. They are
rarely seen as politically motivated by the observers of the time as
hegemonic protest repertoires borne of the middle class, blind the
professional managerial elite of that class who can only imagine that it is
madness that behind such violence. Co-workers nearly always say otherwise
as the record shows; they often expect violence, but are also often
surprised by who "snaps".

Ames makes the connection to the literature during the period of Nat Turner
and John Brown, who both communed with God about what actions they should
take. We now brush aside those details and see them driven by the madness
of slavery. We are now brushing aside the fact that modern day rage
killings stem from a deep satisfaction with how society is organized, not
loss of privilege or some other cause rooted in the dysfunction of the
individual.
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[Marxism] UPS worker shoots 3 fellow workers & himself

[John Reimann via Marxism]

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The news out here is full of the shooting by a UPS worker of 3 of his
fellow workers and then turning the gun on himself. Here

is a tape of an phone interview I did with a UPS worker in a different
region about the conditions on the UPS loading docks and the lack of a
union presence as the background to this sort of thing.

John

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