> I disagree with the "obvious" part of this assertion. What *is* obvious is
> that the AFL-CIO is a corrupt bureaucracy, representatives of the Democratic
> Party within labor rather than vice-versa. But, it is the hallmark of
> sectarian leftism to state that workers should abandon a large union to form
> some splinter sect of the little that remains of actual workers organizations
> with actual workers in them. You might as well ask workers to burn their
> union dues which they've worked for years and years to contribute. Rather, in
> order to advance the workers' movement in the U.S., the rank and file needs
> to be agitating and organizing within these corrupted unions from within,
> electing out the bureaucratic officials with a radical leadership not
> beholden to the Democratic Party. The old officials will then have their
> capitalist sympathies exposed for everyone to see, so they can be humiliated
> and ostracized in whatever manner the workers deem appropriate.
>
> Not to say that this wouldn't be a challenge....
About as pointless as going to the Democractic Party and "boring from within" to reform it.
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