Sniff. Sniff.

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Thu Dec 16 11:19:50 PST 1999



> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:00:58 -0800
> From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka at home.com>


> "Portions of U.S. organized labor are showing the most
> internationalism they have in my memory, which, despite my advancing
> age, is still a fairly limited range. These signs should be
> encouraged, and not disparaged. Hoffa's Mexico- and China-bashing
> deserve nothing but scorn, but for a movement that was long a junior
> partner in the Cold War, this is progress."
>
> That sounds like a caviling endorsement of baby-step incrementalism to me.

<...>

bleh. i suppose, given sufficient bombast, one can condemn almost anything less 'principled' in terms like these.

cheers, t



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