Black Exodus (was Re: Alterman: Left in Shambles)

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 15 08:04:20 PST 2000


What makes you think that the left is too weak to get its own institutions going, but powerful enough to take the Democratic Party away from its owners? --jks


>
>Split, divide - why is that the only way you think you can change either
>the
>Dems or the union movement?
>
>Why are you so sure the left is powerless to takeover those institutions,
>yet will somehow be powerful enough to takeover the whole society?
>
>It seems like a very strange contradictory assumption of powerless and
>power, unfortunately an assumption that is more likely to contribute to the
>former than the latter. When radicals wants to challenge corrupt Teamster
>leadership, they didn't attempt a dual union of truckers, they took on the
>corrupt leadership directly through rank-and-file organizing through TDU.
>THe same is true throughout the union movement. Why do you think dual
>unionism is such a better model than rank-and-file opposition and
>contesting
>for control?
>
>-- Nathan Newman
>

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