Wobbly Times number 7

THE BLUES

Get me hard

The urge

Pleasure overcoming reason

racing through

slow sultry chords

that familiar leitmotif

anchors me

to my soul

Wobbly Times number 6

Private Propety

We are not allowed

to watch TV at a friend's home

It's stealing

We are not allowed

to borrow a cd from a library

It's theft

We are not allowed

to borrow an idea a concept or a notion

from anyone else

It's copyright infringement

The wealth we create

lies in a heap

of commodities

waiting to be sold

The private property

of our masters

fenced off

un cordon sanitaire

We could be dying of hunger

but until we could pay

the food we produce

could never be eaten

'cause capital rules

and we must be beaten

with guilt and batons

for our affluenzia

Wobbly Times number 5

Real human beings for Marx were not people who groveled before kings or masters. Marx hated servility. Humans could only realise their full potential of freedom within classless, democratic social relationships. Nietzsche sees the repetition of social relations of dominance and submission to be a kind of eternal recurrence for humanity. Marx sees the potential to overcome social relations which degrade humanity through dictatorial government e.g. monarchies; but that potential can only be realised by human beings deliberately acting in concert for themselves.
Mike B)
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"Such expressions of relations in general, called by Hegel reflex categories, form a very curious class. For instance, one man is king only because other men stand in the relation of subjects to him. They, on the contrary, imagine that they are subjects because he is king."<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm>
Marx

Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally replaces warfare; humanity installs each of its violences in a system of rules and thus proceeds from domination to domination."<http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/m/jmh403/nietzsche_genealogy_history.htm Nietzsche

"the philistine is the material of the monarchy, and the monarch always remains only the king of the philistines; he cannot turn either himself or his subjects into free, real human beings while both sides remain what they are."<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_05.htm>
Marx
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An individual has no security except through working class solidarity.http://www.iww.org.au/

Wobbly Times number 4

INDIFFERENT NATURE


They can all go to hell


it doesn't matter to me


The world and all its troubles


it doesn't matter to me


It doesn't matter to them


either


It doesn't matter me


We're all no matter


no matter mate


We're all a mess here


don't you see


We don't give a flying...


about anything more


more than our immediate needs


you see


We're all a bunch of nincompoops


lying by the sea


on briney beaches


more like leeches


than whales are we


whales out in the sea


We're all sucking each other's blood


you see


it doesn't matter to me


The Earth is going belly up


but I'm all right


My MBA will soon be hatched


It doesn't matter to me


With job in hand


I'm realistic


I'll have a couple kids


or maybe even three


You see


the world may be all messed up


but it doesn't matter to me


Climate change is just word


I've got my car and wife and kids


I'll just have a cuppa tea


The leaders who are in charge


have always been in charge


I want to be one of them


but until I do


I'll be myself


cause it doesn't matter to me