On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:02 AM, michael yates <[email protected]> wrote: > > Full at > http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2012/07/04/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-an-anti-labor-leftist/ > > This was on counterpunch. However, here I have added links and end notes so > readers can look at this discussion for themselves. While the acrimony has > been considerable, the debate itself is interesting, and, given the revolts > going on in the world and the ones that are going to occur, the rebuilding of > the left and the labor movement are important projects. I might add that Doug > Henwood really got this whole debate going. He has taken a good deal of > unfair and mean-spirited abuse as well. >
Thanks for writing this blog post. It is an excellent summary of the debate. As I see it, a big part of this problem is the conflation of three things that are not at all the same: - The Democratic Party (main merit is being less corrupt and corporatist than the Republican Party) - Unions as they currently exist (corrupt, undemocratic special-interest lobbyists for the labor aristocracy, and enablers for the financiers) - the Labor movement (does not exist) It is absurd to accuse anyone of being an "anti-labor leftist". What does that even mean? But, please sign me up as an anti-union leftist. Where do I get the T-shirt? -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
