[lbo-talk] Sophie's choice (was: Boycotting the unorganized? (multiple replies)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

>Michael Dawson:
> 
> > Whether or not to cross a picket line is not a law.  It is an
> > individual choice.  As a unionist, I support everybody's
> > right to make the choice for herself or himself.

But it is a Sophie's Choice of a sort.  The problem is not with the choice
an individual must make, but that he or she was put in a position to make
that choice.  One does not have to chose which of her kid send to a gas
chamber, expect in a Nazi concentration camp.  Likewise, one does not have
to chose between protecting his/her interests as a wage earner and his/her
job or buying necessities, except in this shit hole aka US of A.  

The point is not to debate which of these choices is right but what to do
with the system that forces a person to make such choices.

Wojtek