tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post115435730205415874..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: Gimme Some Of That Old Time ReligionSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1154437408326983552006-08-01T09:03:00.000-04:002006-08-01T09:03:00.000-04:00Marxism, like environmentalism, is an essentially ...Marxism, like environmentalism, is an essentially urban mythology. <BR/><BR/>In the words of Homer Simpson, nature looks best on TV. <BR/><BR/>Marxism still looks just fine, I guess, in a classroom or coffeehouse.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1154433238758992472006-08-01T07:53:00.000-04:002006-08-01T07:53:00.000-04:00These faux proles not only don't know any real wor...These faux proles not only don't know any real workers, they don't like them or their miseducated minds, except in concept, except as a class. <BR/><BR/>Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin wrote, "Those previous workers having just become rulers or representatives of the people will cease to be workers; they will look at the workers from their heights, they will represent not the people but themselves....He who doubts this does not know human nature."<BR/><BR/>More to the point, Maxim Gorky noted that "the working class are to Lenin what minerals are to a metallurgist."<BR/><BR/>In 1978 I bought a Mao cap in Boston's Chinatown. It was a sort of nerd's talisman, borrowed magic, like wearing a Michael Jordan jersey. Little did I know that some shopowners there, who knew just enough English to make change, had only recently escaped the murderous Cultural Revolution. Why someone didn't slap me, I'll never know. It must have hurt to sell such garbage to ignorant Western students. I don't know. <BR/><BR/>Years later, I met <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803293364/ref=sr_11_1/103-9723147-2306267?ie=UTF8" REL="nofollow">this man</A> in my neighborhood. He was just a little older than me, growing up in the 60s in China, escaping to Nebraska at 25, and finally settling in Minnesota. His book tells the truth about that terrible time, even though his own parents were low-level Communist officials. He returned home to visit last year, but hid the fact of his book's publication from his parents. "They would never forgive me," he said.<BR/><BR/>I wish those pamphleteers in Doc Martens could meet him.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1154433086502049782006-08-01T07:51:00.000-04:002006-08-01T07:51:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.com