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As the smoke cleared, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > I know a few adjuncts. Most are bitter but cautious; although, they > may have been on staff for many years. > > Terry [Try reading thru this w/o sniggering, eh?] This is simply the academic version of the capitalists' ongoing anti- union/organized worker practice of "casualizing" (i.e. their assault on) labor -- right back to 19th (or 15th, for that matter) Century standards: 'divide `n conquer'/'race-to-the-bottom'/'self-employed contractor'/ 'reserve army of labor'/'right to work'/'Market efficiency' crap and all that. And more and more, what could formerly/traditionally be called 'white-collar', 'intellectual' labor -- with its past preferential differentiation from mere manual labor -- is simply now being treated as the mere 'labor' which in fact, it actually is. And in fact this relentless assault on labor of all sorts is all part of the capitalists' drive to maintain expectations of past levels of 'return on investment' -- against the, in fact, *innate* tendency towards declining profit levels under capitalism: kinda like the (apocryphal) attempt of King Knute commanding the tide not to come in... It's also why the capitalists have turned more and more to the decadent practice of pure financial speculation: the results of which are spectacularly on display for all the World to see these daze... And so the bottom line here is -- of course today's academix will feel quite vulnerable in the face of 'official' disapproval: we've descended a long, long way from union solidarity -- or 'ivory tower' tenure for that matter... Which IMO, is not unrelated to the reasons how and why youse Vortik desperados have all ended up holed up here on the outer limits of the Internet badlands. ;> - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoMlCYACgkQXo3EtEYbt3GvzQCdGArbix3+Acd0dKDN8gBIl/FT Z2UAoOIKP+MF7PVJvTdSt5jHFD0yxyhW =Adsc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
