[lbo-talk] Re: one day "shopping" boycott

frank scott frank at marin.cc.ca.us
Thu Dec 30 12:00:00 PST 2004


these things are well intentioned, but hardly effective given the small groups that promote them...

now if something called the american labor movement actually existed and called for a boycott, aimed at a major commercial enterprise, that might amount to something positive...but this? agree with michael d, that most who participate will just put off spending one day to do it the next...so?

further, if such a thing could actually happen, and "everyone" did not spend any money in any shop or enterprise, an awful lot of small businesses would suffer greatly, and some even go belly up, while large enterprise would simply make up the difference the next day...

we need better planning, and actions , than this sort of thing, which may seem to feel good, but won't really do much material good...

fs



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