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Then One (of these) Day(s)
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Then One (of these) Day(s)

Funny but Incorrect Takes on Jed Clampett and Nancy Sinatra
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There are many Google Images pics associated with a search by “Nancy Sinatra and These Boots are Made for Walking.” I chose this one because of the little red flags visible behind Ms. Sinatra and her fellow dancers.

Much of the “Marxist” agitation I’ve heard and read over the decades has been flawed by two core and mistaken assumptions embedded in and mocked by the weak proletarian-fetishist Marxian lyrics mockingly inserted into these two mediocre 1960s tunes I played for this audio: (1) that the working class experience within and beyond the shop floor/workplace generates a revolutionary critique of the bourgeois order (“then one day he was working for his food and [just like that!] he understood the black, oily bubbling crude…contradictions of capitalism, imperialism!”); (2) that the working class/proletariat has an inevitable historical and revolutionary mission to become the gravediggers of the bourgeoisie — a mission that will be completed one happy day (“this class was made for struggling…one of these days class struggle’s gonna walk all over you”). Serious revolutionaries might advocate the abolition of class exploitation and class rule and talk about creating a revolutionary “dictatorship of the proletariat” but do they do not fall for either of these childish and unscientific ideas, a useful antidote for which is employment for a reasonable period of time in a working class job, preferably an industrial one most suited for the classic “class truth” myth of the inherently/inevitably revolutionary working class. Serious communism involves working to bring revolutionary consciousness to working class folks, of course, but above all to the most truly oppressed masses “catching the most Hell under this system” (as Bob Avakian puts it) and really to anyone and everyone who wants to stand up for humanity against a capitalist-imperialist system that is cancelling all prospects for a decent future. Please read the following document for a brilliant revolutionary communist critique of anti-scientific “class truth” mythology and teleological “inevitablism” in “Marxist” thought: Ishak Baran and KJA, “Ajith: A Portrait of the Residue of the Past,” Demarcations (December 2014), http://demarcations-journal.org/issue04/ajith_a_portrait_of_the_residue_of_the_past.pdf

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