----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: RE: fantasy and political organization
> . . . I think of the lingering protectionism, a species of
> > > >Americanism, in the labor movement. Is this a
> > > >mystical consciousness, with its racial and
> > > >nationalistic overtones--a fantasy obscuring real
> > > >common interests and thwarting organization?
> >
> > And it's a stubborn fantasy. . . .
>
>
> What you call protectionism is self-defense.
> "Internationalism" is the fantasy. That
> everyone else is dreaming is your dream.
> Hope they're sweet.
>
> mbs
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The "rationality" of protectionism also flows from neoclassical models
of collective action; chalk another one up for the contradictions of
ortho theory they won't talk about.....
Ian