LabourStart headline - Source: The Daily News

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Lintheads of the world, unite!

Is Egypt more socially advanced than the South?

Lintheads of the world, unite!

Is Egypt more socially advanced than the South?

In a word, Yes.


“Our strike will continue in full capacity, until all our demands are met, and we will protect each other,” Fathy stressed.

US workers' development has been severely retarded by conditions during and following WWII and by subsequent actions taken by the bourgeois government. In the US south this retardation is magnified by long smoldering racist ideology, built on the foundations of slavery, fear, ignorance, and social defeat.

I can remember as a teenager nearly getting into fights because I would not stand up when a band played "Dixie". I probably would have had to fight, too, except I was big as an ox...

In a word, Yes.



US workers' development has been severely retarded by conditions during and following WWII and by subsequent actions taken by the bourgeois government. In the US south this retardation is magnified by long smoldering racist ideology, built on the foundations of slavery, fear, ignorance, and social defeat.

I can remember as a teenager nearly getting into fights because I would not stand up when a band played "Dixie". I probably would have had to fight, too, except I was big as an ox...

came damn near fighting because I don't stand for the anthem at hockey games. Eventually I just stopped sitting down until that shit was over.

came damn near fighting because I don't stand for the anthem at hockey games. Eventually I just stopped sitting down until that shit was over.

Yeah, I try all sorts of dodges these days to avoid that. Where I went to high school (back in the olden days) no one cared if you stood for the national anthem, but "Dixie" was sacred...it was a weird place...