Eh'm doon in the dumps again. Fowks fa ken me will avow tae
meh passionate disgust about the injustice o' the UK's waye o' runnin'
things. It fair maks meh blood byle. Eh dinnae ken aboot you.
In meh work, every singul
day Eh’m seeing how pair fowk are suffering' fae the fawse words o'
the politickers, wha promise a' thing and dae nocht but hairm.
The makar Kelman kens it
weel. Here's whit he said aince.
In an occupied country
indigenous history can only be radical. It is a class issue. The intellectual
life of working class people is ‘occupied’. In a colonised country intellectual
occupation takes place throughout society. The closer to the ruling class we
get the less difference there exists in language and culture, until finally we
find that questions fundamental to society at its widest level are settled by
members of the same closely knit circle, occasionally even the same family or
‘bloodline’. And the outcome of that can be war, the slaughter of working class
people.
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