Revolutionary role of unions

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"At the time of the crisis over the war, the labor bureaucracy played the 
role of a reactionary factor.... But that does not mean the labor movement 
will be able to get along without a big organizational apparatus; without an 
entire spectrum of people devote especially to serve the proletarian 
organization. We do not want to go back to the time when the labor movement 
was so weak that it could get along without its own employees and 
functionaries, but to go forward to the time when the labor movement will be 
something different, in which the strong movement of the proletariat will 
subordinate the stratum of functionaries to itself, in which routine will be 
destroyed, bureaucratic corrosions wiped out; which will bring new men [and 
women] to the surface, infuse them with fighting courage, fill them with a 
new spirit."

-- Gregory Zinoviev, 1916
from "New International" (NY), March-June 1942