On 11/12/12 12:12 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> The political involvement of U.S. workers in electoral politics and, more
> specifically, in the Democratic Party has proved to be historically
> necessary, as a result of the pre-existing weakness and fragmentation of the
> U.S. working class.

That's also true of the PRI in Mexico or the Peronistas in Argentina, or 
the Kemalists in Turkey. For various historical reasons, the trade 
unions have had a relationship to bourgeois parties. But that's no 
reason to take some kind of pseudo-Hegelian stance that effectively 
legitimizes it.

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