" We need a coherent labor strategy that can unite workers in different industries and workplaces."
This appears to suggest creating something entirely new and injecting it into the working class, who will receive it passively. What nobody seems to be acknowledging is that the ferment around BLM mobilized a lot of both Black and not-Black people with the potential for broader activism. At present, this appears- to have itself been coopted by a kind of dead-end vulgar Occupationism which before recently perahps pretty much petering out satisfied itself with (sort of) fighting the police and the Proud Boys, starting fires, and breaking plate glass, and which eschewed articulate demands except BLM demands and getting rid of Trump. Now that the profoundly reactionary Joe Biden is all set to fail abjectly as president, this will probably die out, perhaps leaving the field open to Mike Flynn. Sometime last summer, I witnessed a miracle: in the nowhere and nothingsville has-been town of Bucyrus, Ohio, where I was alas born, there was a march for BLM including apparently over a hundred people. This is a place where you could get your lights punched out for denigrating Trump and where the Presbyterian Church when last heard from had fallen into the hands of the Oath Keepers. Needless to say, given the locale, most of the marchers were white. Nobody AFAIK shot at the march or waved guns at it, and it was described with approval as "welcoming" by the local newspaper, which back in the day regularly ran editorials denouncing public education as a socialist conspiracy and printed the columns of Westbrook Pegler on the back page next to the Jimmy Hatlo cartoon. This is, or was, IMO, a working class action by any reasonable definition. What are "we" going to do about it now that the portal of opportunity has slammed shut? Swan around cocktail parties in Brooklyn talking workerism and trying to get laid? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4689): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4689 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79125717/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
