Charles, your comment, reminds me of a corporate executive who told me that, "China was one big happy union." :o) Honest.
Tom Lehman
Charles Brown wrote:
> >>> Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu> 04/06/00 09:53AM >>>
> Take a look under the heading Disastrous Attempts about half way down
> the page.
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> Disastrous attempts
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> If they could, laborers would heed the words of Karl Marx and unite.
> But the Communist Party has outlawed independent unions and jailed those
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> who have tried to form them. Even informal attempts to organize end in
> disaster.
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> CB: Whereas the formal attempts to organize won the Chinese Revolution.
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> Workers of the World , Unite ! refers to thinking beyond trade union consciousness to class and socialist consciousness. Marx didn't mean unions should be "independent" of the Internationale. Such "independence" is a euphemism for isolated , shortsighted suckers of the bourgeoisie.
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> As Ben Franklin said, if we don' t all hang together, we will all hang separately.
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> CB