I pointed out that we lack the organzation that labor once had. We lack the drive that the American people once had. We also lack the sense of WE and class consciousness. Regardless of what you think of Marx or the implementation of his theories in the USSR (which were a disaster) he got the analysis right...

So today I went to Borders. Originally my mission was to find a tasty scone recipe in any of the cooking magazines on the shelf. I do not bake or cook enough to justify a subscription... but that is another rant. So I decided... ok lets go see what they have on the history of labor...

In the history section I found Zihn's work... the more general books though. Under sociology I find Stud Terkel's essays on work and some of Eirenbach's books, such as nickel and dimed. So I walked over to current affairs, poli sci and ok there is Hartmann. Overall though there wasn't much.

So between the allergy that the American people have to labor and the history of labor... and the lack of material in a borders... no wonder people read this call for ORGANIZATION with all kinds of excuses.

Hey I did get Jacoby's book on anti-intellectualism. I wanted it when it came out, but decided to wait for the soft cover... which has been updated to cover the after election environment. So I guess... I should do some research and some writing and put a comprehensive history of labor... and then find a University Press to print that... assuming outside the Journals anybody is interested. After all all this silliness about class consciousness or how much we are WORKERS not middle class flies in the face of American Myth, and lord knows we need to preserve the myth as long as the empire lives.