[lbo-talk] Teamsters quit AFL-CIO

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Carrol:
> It is nearly impossible to organize workers who don't themselves fully
> acknowledge that they are workers but rather cling to the illusion that
> they are members of an illusory middle class. And of course the strength
> of this illusion, far from being challenged by the left or by
> working-class militants is in fact constantly reinforced. For instance,
> all the rantings on this list about the middle class.

So if I understand you correctly, your organizing strategy hinges on telling
people who spent their entire lives building illusions of respectability and
good life that all that is basically shit, and in fact they are nothing but
downtrodden proles who should give up their illusions and little comforts
and start smashing windows and shooting their bosses.  

I wonder how many people free from mental/personality disorders would
actually buy that line.  My guess is zero, but one never knows what people
may find amusing.

Wojtek