AFL-CIO restructuring

Rob Schaap rws at comserver.canberra.edu.au
Thu Oct 7 23:48:17 PDT 1999


Shit! I was just polishing off a note saying just this. And double-shit! Ange said it better.

Bummer, Rob.


>well put. the most effective reformists are those who can point to a
>palatable threat of ultra-leftist irreconcilability as the likely scenario
>of refusing reformist demands. which is another way of saying that in the
>absence of an irreconcilable movement, there is no space for reformism,
>whether in the micro-politics of negotiations or in the historical
>possibility of settlements like social democracy. of course, that means
>that irreconcilability has to be more than simply a negotiating stance.
>
>just think of it like this nathan, reformism needs extremism in a way the
>latter will never need the former. just look at how effectively the
>respectable right have made use of the nutter right?
>
>Angela
>_________



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