[lbo-talk] wright

[Stephen Philion]

REPLY:  Perhaps the above writer should check out C. Wright Mills' book, The
Power Elite" or read more about COINTELPRO operations of the U.S. Corporate
State?.  Also, if the above writer examined the history of the AFL-CIO from
a radical left perspective he might discover that one reason the U.S. unions
don't have any teeth is that there was a CIA-orchestrated conspiracy to push
militant anti-capitalist union activists out of theAFL-CIO.

--yes and no. you forget that mills was also very intererested in the
structural causes of what you call 'conspiracies'. from your vantage it is a
bunch of 'bad guys' who need to be replaced by 'good guys', something that
is utterly childish when put up against the structural critique of
capitalism that was found in Wright's writings.
as for the 'conspiracy', i don't find anything conspiratorial about the
afl-cio kicking out of militants, in fact the records are pretty open and
clear about the motivations involved.

steve