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Is that you speaking, Dan... or the wine? If "separation" is the cause of failure, what do you call the unity of the CGT and PCF for about 50-60 years of the 20th century? A success? It's a question of political, social content of such unity, not the forms thereof. In the period leading up to the overthrow of the Kerensky government, the Bolsheviks were much more aligned with, and represented in the factory committees than in the actual union leadership, and the factory committees generated the demands for the soviets to take power.. That was then. This is now. And in this now, in the US, what percentage of the work force is organized? Excepting government workers, less than 12 percent and I don't expect there to be a massive drive for unionization in the US, given the last 30 years of union retreats. Besides, exactly what constitutes the separation between the workers' union and the political party in the 2nd Intl? Did the workers' unions repudiate the social democratic parties voting for war credits. Did the unions organize the opposition to the war? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan" <[email protected]> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
