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