unions

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Apr 13 12:27:19 PDT 2000


At 01:01 PM 4/13/00 -0500, Carroll wrote:
>There are of course innumerable caucuses and individuals within
>organized unions which can contribute to this hope. But it is a hope
>only, not yet based on much concrete evidence. In another post
>you suggested that it was possible to criticize the current Chinese
>regime without being a xenophobe. That is true in the abstract --
>concretely, under current conditions, any (*even* true) criticism
>of China or any of its aspects within the inchoate "anti-wto
>movement" will, I suspect, only lend strength to xenophobia and
>all the worst traditions of u.s. labor and the u.s. left.

Hmmm, by that logic criticizing any foreign country (esp. one not being a member of the G7 club) is tantamount to xenophobia. Ergo, Chomsky's criticim of US support for Indonesia was in the worst tradition of the US left, no?

wojtek



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