>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.
Seems to me a better organizing strategy would be to tell those people who've eked out some respectability that Bush, the boss, and capitalism (and not the Mexicans and Chinese!) want to take it away from them, and only organizing into unions can keep them from being ground into the dirt.
Doug