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Liberty, Equality, Siblingatry!

Even back in the Sixties, when I was a young punk, I noticed that all the local Marxists carried briefcases instead of lunchboxes. The theory that communist revolution would spring from the working classes didn’t pan out at all. On the contrary, it sprang almost exclusively from the nonworking classes, mainly from the elite academic world, with the shock troops recruited from the student body and the welfare recipient bloc.Now, of course, we’re further than ever from that working class idea. The American working class is mostly pretty anti-Marxist and for a long time now has been voting for the Wallaces and Nixons and Reagans, with occasional surges back to the Democrats when they manage to look conservative for a few weeks leading up to…

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Django Unwatched

By me, at least. Not at all eager to see “kill Whitey” screeds. We get enough of that on the news. Do you suppose this gawdawful movie will lead more Trayvons out there to, well, kill Whitey? If it does, will the media be concerned? Will the media even take notice of the fact that it’s a Black-on-White massacre, or will they, as they did in the case of Omar Thornton, speculate that he was driven to do it all by White racism? Blacks, you know, are always victims, even when they are perps.And sorry about the illustration. I’m old, and easily confused. I got “Django” mixed up with “Bojangles.” That’s not to put Sammy Davis, Jr. …