I met members of a coal-mining community once. It was really important to them that we understood that the people who actually lived there were real miners, as in, they weren't doing mountaintop removal or like the insane destructive modern practices. They wanted us to know that they were doing the works themselves. That they were proles essentially. And you know, they were reactionaries too. But it struck me at the time -- I was more of a lib then -- how they knew we probably didn't like coal and it was important to them to emphasize their own dignity. The little bit of dignity that you can still have in the rapidly atrophying small villages of Coal Appalachia.
same :jokerfication: :marx-joker:
It’s true. Work made my grandfather the man he was. I’ll never forget his debilitating black lung
I met members of a coal-mining community once. It was really important to them that we understood that the people who actually lived there were real miners, as in, they weren't doing mountaintop removal or like the insane destructive modern practices. They wanted us to know that they were doing the works themselves. That they were proles essentially. And you know, they were reactionaries too. But it struck me at the time -- I was more of a lib then -- how they knew we probably didn't like coal and it was important to them to emphasize their own dignity. The little bit of dignity that you can still have in the rapidly atrophying small villages of Coal Appalachia.