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Certainly the militancy and enthusiasm manifested last year in Madison were successfully coopted by the labor hierarchy and the Democratic Party, both of whom suceeded in diverting large amounts of energy, to be expended upon the magic word "recall" . The results of that cooptation are painfully obvious now. Mike G. El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! ________________________________ From: Mark Lause <markala...@gmail.com> To: Mr. Goodman <godisamethod...@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard on Wisconsin recall defeat ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Like most regulation, Taft-Hartley was embraced by those being regulated. It essentially precluded a lot of the activities that militants in the unions wanted done and labor officialdom wanted not to do. It settled these internal tensions in favor of the labor bureaucracy. The relation of the labor movement to Occupy, like that of liberal politicians to the movement, are ultimately rather blunt. As I've pointed out several times, they aren't trying to entirely dissolve Occupy or get Occupy to pass resultions endorsing Democrats. Their goal is to make sure that Occupy does not develop a mass independent power base. This is the common demoninator to everything they're doing. If Occupy wants to add a little drama to the News that is carefully focuse don embrassing the Republicans, who could object? That's not nuanced, though. It's all about what reinforces the same, tired old, failed strategies. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/godisamethodist%40yahoo.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
