A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
Saturday, August 31, 2002
Union decline and " political correctness "
There is a myth that the news media is imbued with left-wing
prejudice. But why should the billionaire owners of newspapers,
magazines, radio and TV stations leave the management of these
powerful voices of " public opinion " to " dizzy leftists " ?
How rarely does the public get a WORKING CLASS slant
on the news ! It is hardly an exaggeration to say that most
newspapers editors have one purpose in life : to stifle a little
thing called CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS. For years now the phony academic
Left have tried to substitute an innocuous mindset called
" political correctness " - that DIVIDES the masses into small
minded, self-centered, mutually antagonistic groups that blind
themselves to the really dominant forces in human social life.
If the politically correct Left had Marxist backbones -
and had great influence on the news media, then why has union
membership declined here in the United States - the land of the FREE-
to a miserable 9 percent of the work-force ?
For almost a generation rather ludicrous race, gender,
ethnic conflict has replaced solid, rational CLASS STRUGGLE.
And clearly just about all the worlds major religions
prefer crackpot mysticism to anything as subversive as CLASS
consciousness.
The Islamic crackpots crash airplanes into tall office
buildings - killing thousands of infidels - in the name of Allah.
Jewish crackpots arrogantly build settlements on disputed land -
with the delusion that THEY are the CHOSEN PEOPLE . The Catholic
Pope has one relentless message to the destitute of the earth :
KEEP THE BAMBINOS COMING !
Our pious president, George W. Bush, wants to wage
war against Iraq - unprovoked and in contempt of Allied opinion -
to the tune of " Onward Christian Soldiers ".
Is Russia really better off as a capitalist society ?
Gangster capitalism has ruined the former Soviet Union -possibly
for centuries. Wasn't dialectic materialism easier to put up with
than mass drunkenness and Scientology ? Under the planned economy,
the average Russian citizen could at least hope to reach age 65.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was brainlessly
misinterpreted by bourgeois ideologists as the vindication of
a ruthless, reckless, soul-destroying, global capitalism.
Whada ya mean: " workers of the world unite " ?
Happy Labor Day ! Now you working class people have
nothing to lose but your lottery tickets. Happily you got
your Budweiser back - thanks to those damned Teamsters.
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