House of Paine

hit a fucking nerve comrades

     

  some times 
we lose sight of our
     mission

"hit  a fucking klass nerve motherfuckers"

  confrontation baby  
              klass confrontation

bringing out the worst
                       in the caps

thats what brings out 
the best and brightest 
in the prolecats 

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  yep !

“ hitting a nerve ”
 
 that was a favorite 
PL   phrase back in the dodo dayz

along with 

“sharpening contradictions”

“ racist layoffs ”

and the ever bold  

“upping  the ante”

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it occurs to me 
as oh so many 

"possible new  forms of progress"

 float up stream past me 

 most 
don’t past the nerve test

they don't zap 
 any
real live  capitalists
right 
in their own system 

they're
 all some hapless
varient 
on some losers gaff
pipe dream
some nerds
 linear extrapolation
or or or

take my favorite 

the aesop fable

" an employee stock  ownership plan"

god the poetry of that boon doggle

 if ya don't know it well
then 
look it up 

a sad decendent 
of owenite fantasy time circa 1830 

 even in its self starter morph 
125 years ago 

it couldn't stay afloat

and did it ever cause 
capitalists a moments pause?

   NO 

from   dreams 
of 
co=operative factory ownership
in victorian drawing rooms

to
 a late century 
 trickle of real live 
noble hobbesian constructs 
like 
saw mills fishing camps 
and even 
whole mining towns 

it was nothing but 
struggling to survive

survive

in a world that allowed them
a run 
both  brutish and   brief

(my favorite
though a hybred:
the baseball players league)

down and 
down 
the dream fizzled
till 
we're left 
with the  
the insulting
hand out
 dribbles of 
“ profit sharing “
    and 
scam-o-wanga junctions
like 
“ 401 kkk  Company match  contributions”

soon enough
 we’re back 
at ground zero 
again

  where todays 
 wage is its  cashout
 
and the rest is uo to you
        fellas 

so be careful
don't spend it all in one place 
make it last 

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dreams of voluntary
non violent up lift
the chains melting away

all such lovely harmless  fluff

no challenge 
to the sam  wallsmarts
  of the world
 
“go ahead boyz and girlz
cook up anything ya like 
knock your selves out 
take your
ideas to the local bank
why don’t ya ”

reason

  “ fuck it ain’t on my tab ”

      get the diff ?

no capitalist nerve gets a spike in it 

cause
unlike say

an occupation/ strike
of his premises

whats mr misters
care

dreams are dreams

 just steer clear 
of 
his steel plant
his grocery store 
his ware house
his office tower

go ahead cream off a few wacho followers

he'll find enough
wagelingers 
to get the jobs done

setting up alternatives
just ain't 
  threatening
 
only ex -appropriation
of what 
mr mister is already 
 calling his own
is threatening

that and
in he short run 
prolecat style  
wage fights 
right there
inside his out fit

thats all there is 
to  real klass struggle 

to the big bastard
what in hell iz

a food co-op
where  all are equals 
and
effort pay onlyabounds

nothin'
not even if they open 
a  printing   shop too

no way 
will any co-operative
 outside venture 
harm or even scare him

its about competition ultimately

and hows a co=op 
any more of a competitive threat
 then a capitalistic out fit 

 JUST CAUSE ITS EMPLOYEE OWNED

come on sleep walkers


“ fuck
 who cares who owns what 

i sure as fuck don't

          when  
we meet in the market place
mano a mano
its about product and price

and
 when we're 
in line together
at the bank

well
we'll see
who gets what

credit is about 
 bottom lines "

I say 

take the fucking bastards
 at their word

most likely 
they can pulverize
a co-op competitor 

 " sure as shit 
in fact
 i think i ‘d 
rather face 
a co-op
 fuckit
 ten co-ops
 then 
  just 
one mother fuckin'
  ahab run   
  Coors family type
 set up

yes madame
any day of the week”
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as to the glory be to god eventuality
 
when the co=ops
or the union controled 
pension funds 
or 
the union board members 
or the "or the's" themselves 

some how 

manage to 
take a dominating position
economy wide
or
 governmentally deep 


you know 
the day 
 when 
the wagelingers 
"vote in"
their own klass reps
and 
get " the state" 
to tilt things
 their way for once 
 
the day when
folks everywhere
are fast at
the preliminaries 
of 
a prolecat general  take over
ballot box arrived at ....

don't that scare the bastard some?


 well 
 sam wallsmart sez .

“hey  gang
good luck tryin'

as to my response 
when and if....

lets just wait and see
 if that bridge 
ever needs crossing
                         okay?”

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so far 
fellow wage grifters

the answer 
and its been  175 years now 
  
  izzzz 

wait till next election 

nope

we ain’t reached that bridge yet

can't vote in a social revolution
any more then you
build an alternative
economic system
side by side with corporate america 


not even  Sweden
 can do that type of shit

and they got 
gorgeous 
ice kooled
blondes 


in fact 
they 
let alone 
we
 seem further away
today

 then  in 1970 

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