Thu, 2 Jul 1998 12:20:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 12:21:38 -0700 From: "M. W. McGovern" To: sokol@jhu.edu Subject: Re: A Nation of Spectators? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DD2D71FAF772005C68113538 > Greetings, First off, I am more or less a PSN spectator, yet I feel I need to ask a question at this point. With all the hoopla about jobs moving away from the states, and the "anger" at which it seems to bring, whatever happened to the "workers of the WORLD unite" ideology? With these jobs going across our borders to other lands, should not we be happy that our brothers and sisters are gaining an opportunity to gain more from the use of their labor? And in turn, should we not be ready for the challenge of increasing the skill in which our workers here at home will need to compete? With the increase in the skill level of our homeland workers, will not more opportunities be created for some workers to ride themselves of the oppressive and exploitive "shackles" of their bosses, and begin to compete against them (hopefully without forgetting the feelings of unity with their fellow brother and sister workers?). Yes, the big corporations are tools of the ruling class, yet they are also our tools as well, we just need to realize this, and use it for the benefit of workers in general. Rome was not built in a day, and neither will a world for the working class, yet with time and social evolution, I would bet that the world of our grandchildren, or gr-grandchildren etc. might just become that world. In Solidarity, Matthew W. McGovern --------------DD2D71FAF772005C68113538 begin: vcard fn: M. W. McGovern n: McGovern;M. W. org: Institute for the Advancement of the Simian Nation adr: Louisville;;;;KY;;USA email;internet: matthew@louisville.edu tel;work: 1.502.346.2426 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------DD2D71FAF772005C68113538--