THE NEW LEFT TAKES OVER AMERICAN UNIONS

[sokol at jhu.edu]

RE: 
>Yes, but he doesn't cite them that way, as subjects that merit serious
>serious discussion.  He cites them as simple, quasi-natural facts of
>life that stupid leftists just don't get.  

and similar responses to my comments on Kotkin.

I reply (WS):

That is true, but is not most of the bourgeois social 'science' trying to
portray bourgeois social institutions as 'natural' and every other
institutions are 'man-made?'  (if memory serves, Marx had a comment on
that, comparing bourgeois political science to religion).

My point was not to defend Kotkin's argument, which _is_ a piece of
bourgeois propaganda, but to address the real issues on which that
propaganda is built.

To reiterate: restructuring/balkanization of corporate operations, low
wages, and threats of relocation are real problems that unions must address
if they want to be successful - regardless of what bourgeois mouthpieces
have to say on that subject.

PS. Sorry for posting over-limit.

Wojtek