The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing character of the working class,” first published in 1986. Marcy is the late chairperson of Workers World Party. The book is available as a free download at workers.org/marcy. The scientific-technological…
very much something that the governor like to tout as an achievement of his administration but there are groups working hand in glove with his administration to execute this agenda and i think it s important that we sort of call attention to the reporting on that. the florida citizens alliance this is from the new york times reporting today a conservative group has urged the state to reject 28 of the 38 textbooks that its volunteers reviewed, including more than a dozen by mcgraw hill, a major national publisher these are the kinds of objections this group has, an eighth grade book gave outsized attention to the negative side of the treatment of native americans while failing to give a fuller account of their own acts of violence such as the jamestown massacre i mean, who knows what they will say about slave insurrections and whether we have put too much owe news on slaveholders the asymmetry is quite obvious