Social Protectionism

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Thu Mar 16 13:07:52 PST 2000


CB: I've been an attorney for AFSCME, and supported many AFL actions, from Solidarity Day I to the Detroit Newspaper strike, and many other picket lines. I'm not as "outside" as you claim. I've been a member of District 65 UAW, Labor Party member. et. al. I might be more inside than you are.

You've been more activist than me, though I'd say as to high-level strategy we're both on the outside looking in. The difference is that when I bring up one of the typical left complaints with somebody from "the building," they can usually demolish it in a couple of sentences.


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Your outside-the-fray pronouncements thus have little weight. Try doing what the AFL does for ten years and then tell me how you think their strategy should change. You might as well be playing "Class Struggle -- The Game."

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CB: I have been following the lead of the AFL for more than ten years. More like twenty. Now , after all that struggle on behalf of the AFL, dues paid liteally and figuratively, I have some criticisms. Freedom of speech , you know.
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This last was for the benefit of my buddy Mr. B, who seems unleavened by any practical experience. In re: yourself, I take it back. Or as Ron Ziegler once said, 'that statement is no longer operative.'

mbs



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