Wednesday, June 11, 2014

THE PREAMBLE

OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD

 

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.

We find that the centering of management of the industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.

These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.

Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every-day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.



Friday, June 7, 2013

America, b.1776-d.2013: (Mistah Kurtz - he dead)...A penny for the Old Guy

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Four Rules of Capitalism



Seems like Aaron Swartz forgot the rules. Let us review....

BUY LOW. SELL HIGH.
MONEY TALKS. SHIT WALKS.
MONEY GOES UP. SHIT GOES DOWN.
FUCK YOU. PAY ME.




Tuesday, August 28, 2012

We're back online today.

We're back online today.



I think I'll violate my rules and talk directly about me.

l am a communist, of the Marx/Engels/Rosa Luxemburg flavor. Russian and Chinese communism is bullshit.

I have lost faith in democracy.

Eisenhower only got it half right; I hate the Military Industrial Commercial Entertainment Advertising complex amerika has become.

Manufactured popular culture nauseates me.

I have taken more than my share of shit from people in my life who you wouldn't expect to give you shit.

If I hadn't met a few people, I would have been dead decades ago.

I am a MUSICIAN, goddamit. Always was. Always will be.

You want a picture? It's at the top.

You want music? Click here.


Sunday, March 18, 2012

ACT UP NYT/Bruni


“We, Act Up, got those drugs out there."

Not true. _I_ did.   More accurately, my friends and I did.

We were Synthetic Organic Chemists. We worked in the Development departments of companies like Merck, Pfizer, Warner Lambert/Parke Davis, SmithKline, Upjohn, Abbott, Burroughs Wellcome, Glaxo, and Hoffman LaRoche. We worked under enormous pressure. Our management told us that every delay caused somebody's death. The chemistry was so difficult, we thought our task was impossible.

We stopped the plague. Not politicians, the government, AIDS activists, nor celebrities.

WE DID.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

We Consider Stupidity



Welcome to the fifth "Give the Fiddler a Dram" podcast.

[Proverbs 26:11] A fool doing some stupid thing a second time is like a dog going back to its vomit.