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[aggro13]

Can I say how much I cannot wait to have my degree finished so I don't have to deal with peevish college professors who think the world revolves around them? Other than that, and the one professor that reuses her discussion post responses to the students in her class, school is going well. I am having a tough time fitting everything in, but you do

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[flintultrasparc]

I admire your attending college, while working, while being a mother. My mother did the same thing, and raise my sister and me alone. So, mad props to you.

Classes do not necessarily have unity. Racism in the U.S. has been alot about making sure that unity did not develop. As you point out it happened between slaves and indentured servants, and it happens today.

The capitalist class is divided in that it competes with itself over profits. While it's in the interests of the the capitalist class as a whole to play by the same rules to keep the proletariat down; they are each trying to get ahead of each other. Otherwise, how can we make sense of war between different imperialist powers? Or for that matter, how can we make sense of the current disunity in the ruling class over what to do about Iraq.

My current reading:
Nestor Makhno, Cossack of Anarchy: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921, Alexandre Skirda
Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation, George E. Tinker
Looking for Jake, China Mieville
Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson

Recently, I read an alternate history too The Rivers of War, Eric Flint. The premise is that the Cherokee form a united nation and relocate before the U.S. government forces it. This, and other recently reading Debating Democracy: Native American Legacy of Freedom has me thinking and researching a lot about the Haundenosaunee Confederacy.