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Alabama, son of a massacre Reganomics

dae Alberto Piccinini

Mark Ames, U.S. journalist, is the author of "Going Postal", a strong and provocative book that meticulously analyzes the massacres with Pluto in the U.S. workplace since the early 80s. Ames discovered in each history concret to anything but the unexplained madness, but the logic of workers 'crushed' by the transformation of their businesses in the style of Reaganomics. We asked him to comment on the massacre in Alabama, in connection with the publication of the Italian His book, later this month, for editions Isbn. "It 's too early to say what happened in Alabama, - he said - but the underlying reason must be sought in the economy, in the company where this man has committed suicide. I consider this as another battle of this lla which was a real class war in America, which lasted thirty years, ever since the Reganomics has transformed this country. The investigators, in Alabama, they are right when they say that some of the reasons for the carnage resulting from the fact that the killer was a 'disgruntled employee', and we know that the Reliable - the company where he worked - Started a couple of weeks ago a program of large-scale redundancies. These layoffs have scared the local community, which is already poor and desperate. The southern states like Alabama that are almost like mini-Third World countries, where wages are low, unions do not exist or are strongly opposed, and where they are offered huge tax breaks to companies because they move there. In other words, where workers are exploited to the bone. What is interesting about this case and seems to open a new trend within the framework of this new Great Depression is that a financially ruined man kill his entire family before taking his own life, as if he wanted his family must address not only shame but also the general economic devastation.

Your theory about the massacres in the workplace dates back to Reaganomics, and the transformation of human relations and business. Do not you think that it is this crisis (as well as the advent of Obama, and the new cultural climate that brings with it) will change the scenario?

When I presented my book in American libraries, a few years ago now, the most common question I was asked was "when will it all end?". I did not know what to say, except to say that probably all would be over when it happened some kind apocalyptic event like the Great Depression or World War II. With the financial collapse and the new Depression, it seems that the model of Reaganomics is staggering, so much to be impeached even by the same economic and political establishment. In any case, I remain skeptical. The big economic interests and the super-rich are fighting like crazy against Obama, and usually they win. Unlike the '30s, also, there is a strong counter-ideology that could replace the Reaganomics. The Left in the U.S. is too shy to even use the word "socialism". Obama speaks of "post-ideology" and "competence", but for me it is another way of say that the current ideology is still the dominant one.

From what you hear on TV and other media, what is the style in reaction to this massacre? Something is changing?

One new thing there. For the first time the media are starting to put these killings in the context of layoffs, corporate culture, economy. I remember last November when an engineer in Silicon Valley fired the manager of his company, and two of his colleagues, killing and wounding the other two first, all securities immediately pointed out the fact that he had been sacked and lost a lot of money. Now that the media are in a state of suffering also economic, with journalists losing their jobs, it is as if it were easier to find a form of identification with the perpetrators of these massacres. I think a lot of journalists have dreamed of killing dismissed their publishers.

Another report, from Germany, speaks of a massacre at a school. In Going Postal long have you been busy at Columbine. In that sense, the massacres in schools are linked to those occurring in the workplace?

not know the details of the massacre at that school, but I'm sure there are many differences. It 'clear that many massacres that have occurred in schools were inspired by their European Columbine, and that's exactly what they wanted the perpetrators of the massacre. In their video diary had clearly stated: "We want to start a revolution." And so have become "heroes" for literally hundreds, thousands and perhaps millions of children around the world, many of them belonging to middle class families. And it is something to which it seems that nobody wants to even think.

You can find the full comment by Mark Ames at:

http://exiledonline.com/alabama-shootings-just-another-bloody-battle-in-americas-thirty-years-class-war /