Hot to Trot

[Leo Casey]

Excuse me, but this is a completely asshole comment.
If you don't want to engage in a debate about what
types of strategies should be pursued in the trade
union movement, than just sit happily on the
sidelines; nobody will miss you. But this kind of
bullshit carping and misrepresentation of an extended
post on Braverman, the labor process and why a
particular type of workerist strategy which refuses to
take up issues of control over the labor process and
knowledge is, IMHO, counterproductive, is just plain
destructive. This mindless engagement in habitual,
know nothing whines about "Cold War screeds"
contributes nothing but ill will to the entire
discussion.

Furthermore, the day when labor solidarity depends
upon shutting down open debate over strategies, on
muffling criticisms and differences, is the day when
labor solidarity is already dead. If you don't
understand that, then you don't understand the most
basic thing about how a democratic labor movement
works.


> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Leo Casey wrote:
> > 
> > This is not simply a question of a theoretical 
> > shortcoming; it is reflected -- and remains a
> > live
> > issue today -- in the political work of
> > workerist 
> > socialists, mostly Trot, who work within the
> > trade
> > union movement. 

 
> I find it amazing that after all the horrors of
> Ghouliani, you still pound
> out tired, Cold War screeds blasting tiny cells of
> Trots for the decline
> and fall of the American labor movement.  And of
> course, you even manage
> to sneer the TDU, brave souls who fought for union
> democracy at a time
> when the Teamsters were at their low. All this, at
> a time when the UFT is
> in bargaining and needs all the solidarity it can
> get. 

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate
agitation are men who want crops without plowing the
ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without the awful roar of its
waters.

-- Frederick Douglass --

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