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it's good to remember what collaboration is. it's good to remember that there's no contradiction between bidness and collaboration with an authoritarian regime. no problem at all from a bidness viewpoint. it's good to remember the power of compartmentalization.
in this particular situation, there's a bunch of ironies that i won't bore you with concerning the politics of french railway workers: suffice it to say that there were from the earliest days of french trade union organization amongst the most militant in france. so the sncf was never one thing. and in part because of the presence of the left inside the sncf, the role of the system in collaborating with the nazis has long been known.
at the same time, to really make a judgment about this you'd have to know specifically about the french situation and what the prospects were. sncf as a state corporation had little latitude. it was not in the same situation as, say, renault, which was privately held and enthusiastic in the fufillment of german war material orders.
profits uber alles dontcha know.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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