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How Do They Intersect? A debate on how anarchist communists should address environmental issues. Should we work within an existing movement or seek to build a new one. But why should poor and working people always make the sacrifices for middle-class environmental solutions?
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Spring zu Komment: 1 2I am disappointed that Arthur J. Miller chose to take a comment of mine out of context, and then attribute to me attitudes that I clearly do not have. It is not an attitude of class superiority to note that literate people with access to sound information, are in a better position to make decisions, than are the many U.S. workers (and others) who are raised on television, and given piss-poor instruction in the 3 R's during those critical early school years (to say nothing of being deprived of a coherent narrative relating to U.S. and world history.) This is true, regardless of the fact that many workers overcome these obstacles (as Arthur says he has.) The public schools reek, because the bosses don't need thinking workers (or at least, not a lot of them). Rather, they need docile followers. So we get standardized testing, rather than good educations that teach critical thinking skills.
Moving ahead. Arthur J. Miller wrote: "The point … is that in most cases… a working person… face(s) a struggle just to be heard. Why go through that?" The obvious answer is, so that there be some slim chance of success with a given campaign. The same reason many of us work with liberals in the anti-war movement. Not to have fun, or avoid being insulted or irritated. To struggle, in an effort to win.
Look, I spent 11 years in a machine shop without windows. Then I rubbed shoulders outside the smoldering autoclaves with Latinos in rug mills, before driving a service truck to hell and back. I can swap bona fides with you. But I usually prefer to skip such silliness. I only bring it up here, to say that I know what a pain middle-class liberals can be, or even middle class "radicals" (kids, usually). I bailed out of an anti-war coalition in Chattanooga, for just such reasons. But, I also swallowed my pride and indignation, and mended fences with certain of the less-arrogant elements there, for all the reasons I have given here.
I know what a pain-in-the-ass these folks can be. Some of them, one just cannot work with. No way. A worker must either follow their lead, or get out. But not all of them. If we are serious about winning some struggles, given the stratification of U.S. society, I think it is crazy to rule out working in coalitions with middle-class people. It is unrealistic to think that we will win many campaigns, acting in such a narrow fashion. I think that with the war, and with environmentalism, sound strategic thinking calls for principled work within coalitions.
i highly doubt arthurs trying to be offensive. he just kind of is that way. i agree with all of your points though, as well as the original letter you sent us.
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