laphamsquarterly: A few former LQ editors have started a Tumblr for historical presidents for Occupy Wall Street. It is still a small and humble endeavor, so feel free to submit your historical readings that illuminate the OWS movement.  occupyhistory: 1928, RUSSIA One day at a worker-correspondent meeting, we were arguing about how to describe workers’ lives. The question is tremendously important to us rabkors [correspondents] because we’ve never read a description of our life nowadays as workers that was broad or complete. True, you run across individual bits and scraps of worker life in the newspapers. Sometimes our life is described so that workers live like the bourgeoisie used to, or sometimes so that our life is flat-out filth. These descriptions really upset us. We’re furious at the writers and, of course, even more so at ourselves. Who the hell knows what’s going on! Some people don’t know how we live, but they write. We do know, but writing is beyond us. We could just cry! That’s why we decided to get together and figure out how to describe our lives ourselves. Ivan Zhiga, from The Thoughts, Cares, and Deeds of the Workers. Initiated by Vladimir Lenin, the worker-correspondent, or “rabkor” program, was developed in the 1920s as a means to reveal corruption and to provide the proletariat with a voice of their own. (via Lapham’s Quarterly) Today in Occupations.

laphamsquarterly:

A few former LQ editors have started a Tumblr for historical presidents for Occupy Wall Street. It is still a small and humble endeavor, so feel free to submit your historical readings that illuminate the OWS movement. 

occupyhistory:

1928, RUSSIA

One day at a worker-correspondent meeting, we were arguing about how to describe workers’ lives. The question is tremendously important to us rabkors [correspondents] because we’ve never read a description of our life nowadays as workers that was broad or complete.

True, you run across individual bits and scraps of worker life in the newspapers. Sometimes our life is described so that workers live like the bourgeoisie used to, or sometimes so that our life is flat-out filth.

These descriptions really upset us. We’re furious at the writers and, of course, even more so at ourselves. Who the hell knows what’s going on! Some people don’t know how we live, but they write. We do know, but writing is beyond us. We could just cry! That’s why we decided to get together and figure out how to describe our lives ourselves.

Ivan Zhiga, from The Thoughts, Cares, and Deeds of the Workers. Initiated by Vladimir Lenin, the worker-correspondent, or “rabkor” program, was developed in the 1920s as a means to reveal corruption and to provide the proletariat with a voice of their own. (via Lapham’s Quarterly)

Today in Occupations.

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