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Our generation is the most radical in
decades. Hundreds of thousands of militant
youth all around the world fight against
capitalist domination: in Seattle, Prague,
Genoa, Jakarta, Buenos Aires, Geneva, and
also in Berlin.
In 1990 the Simpsons had a student from Albania in their home. The young Adil Hoxha
(named after the Stalinist dictator of Albania Enver Hoxha) showed a clear Marxist
understanding of society. For example he told Marge, "Mrs. Simpson, you have been
oppressed enough today. I will clear the dishes." Marge is forced to do house work every
day because she is oppressed by the capitalist patriarchy - but the two Simpsons kids
never batted an eyebrow.
When the left-liberal know-it-all Lisa tries to explain about the "freedoms" of the USA, Adil
observes correctly that these freedoms are meaningless when 95% of society's riches are
in the hands of 5% of the population. Homer chimes in, explaining the true nature of the
free market: The machinery of capitalism is oiled with the blood of the workers!
Homer's most important struggle was his term of service as a trade union activist. Mr. Burns
wants to take the dental plan from the workers of the Springfield Nuclear Plant. The union is
corrupt and the old boss, who had promised to clean things up, lies dead under the grass of
a football stadium.
Homer first thinks that Burn's offer is great: a beer keg for the dental plan. But soon he
realizes that the workers need to fight in order to keep their social protection -- they only
have the dental plan as the result of a successful strike in the 80s. Homer explains all this
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to his comrades. He is elected the new head of the union and declares a strike!
Mr. Burns remembers with joy factory life in 1909, when there were no unions and the
bosses could fire, beat, and kill workers at will. But now everything is different: the strikers
stick together, attempts to use strikebreakers are useless, and Burns and Smithers can't
run the plant by themselves.
The strikers form a giant ring in front of the entrance to the plant and sing the eternal truth
of the workers' movement:
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