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. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
