tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post6165369103871683619..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: If Hillary can't withstand Olbermann's metaphor, why should she be President?TED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-20748024020552147152010-12-05T08:53:08.282-08:002010-12-05T08:53:08.282-08:00But then again, cootie mongers are a grakking good...But then again, cootie mongers are a grakking good eat when you're in CaHootieburg, PA.!!!Swank Farberhttp://stupidhead.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-82269126095058628342010-12-05T07:54:23.428-08:002010-12-05T07:54:23.428-08:00...a Marxist working-class perspective does not co......a Marxist working-class perspective does not consist of the willingness to orient towards workers (mediated through the class traitors of the labor bureaucracy, to be sure) for the purpose of including them among the various other "constituencies" assembled under the political banner of the liberal bourgeoisie. The empirical reflex of much of the U.S. left, faced with the demonstrated revolutionary aspirations of the working class following the 1968 French upsurge, has been to go where the action is by adopting a simple-minded "workerism" underlaid with the social do-goodism previously characteristic of the New Left's attitude toward the "Third World.: In this respect PL-SDS's "tactics" of "allying" with workers by showing how much you want to help them is not atypical, and provides yet another excuse for the right wing of the radical movement (perfectly typified by the SWP's Padilla as well as the old New Leftists) to justify dismissal of the working class as the force for revolution because of the false consciousness (racism, patriotism, big green boogers) which simple-minded "workerism" must ignore as a principle.mantmarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350882479535662318noreply@blogger.com