Listing "specific things like better income support and decent labor laws" and leaving them at that makes them a laundry list, though, signifying the lack of a Vision Thing. Why shouldn't workers support only individual items on the list they like (e.g., higher minimum wages, more environmental conservation) and refuse to support others they believe they don't like (e.g., abortion, equality between gays and straights)? There is no reason why you need to use such terms as Marxism or socialism, but you do need a Vision Thing, a political framework that can tell anti-abortion workers why they need to defend reproductive rights, straight workers why they need to support gay-straight equality, etc. if they are to aspire to win what they want. -- Yoshie
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