I agree. The point I was arguing that you cannot win these folks over with a campaign or two - in fact the current generation is probably lost. You need to aim at their kids.
Another point - I am a friend of unions, but unionism per se is not necessarily progressive. US unions were strongholds of racism and later anti-communism. I would argue that it was so because bashing of Blacks, liberals, immigrants and foreigners had always a strong appeal to Americans - at lest since the Know Nothing movement.
> What this article points to is the fact that organization and education of
> the working class is a long term project where any intellectual who wants
to
> be invovled must throw their lot in with the working class. And this kind
No disagreement here. But as I just said, the effects of that work will be seen only in the next generation. This is how long it took for the so-called Reagan "revolution" to come to its full fruition.
Wojtek