LUMPENPROLETARIAT—Try as we might to avoid touching pitch, the capitalist mode of production has an insidious way of making fools of us all.  Tell us about your purity; and we’ll show you the stains.  Put food on the table, feed your family.  Exploit your brethren, or be exploited by them.  Take your pick.  But wake the folk up.  Then rage against the machine, my friends.

—Messina

“Blue In Green” by Miles Davis

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