[lbo-talk] Teamsters quit AFL-CIO

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug:
> 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.
> 

Certainly, but that would require explicit acknowledgement of their middle
class status and aspirations - something that Carrol and fellow travelers
seem to reject in principle.

Wojtek