Union Bosses and Radical Workers

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Wed Dec 4 14:37:09 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>


> Ever notice how union leaders are "bosses" but
> corporate leaders are "executives" or "officers"?
> Corporations don't have bosses.
>
> On a cheerier note, a secretary around here (no kid,
> either--what do the kids know?) heard me explaining to
> a fellow associate that I was going to give a talk on
> pragamtism and Marxism ata the Am Phil. Assn,
> buttonholed me, and asked me, didn't I think it was
> silly to suppose Marxism had been refuted by the fall
> of the USSR, as if the collapse of a tyranny could
> tell you anything about the hope for a society run by
> working people. I told her I agreed. So, even here, in
> the belly of the beast, or on its navel, anyway. . . .
>
> I gotta get back to beastliness, sorry.
>
> jks
>
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Yet another attempt to roll KM into the dustbin of history:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2002/marxism.html



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