Except back then the CP and other left groups actually had innovative strategies and some real sense of tactics.
^^^^ CB: Would the Nathan Newman's of the 1920's and 30's have said this about the CP then ?
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The CP was not just calling for empty marches
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CB: I bet then many liberals called the Ford Hunger March or the marches of the Unemployed Councils "empty". CP had many marches with small numbers of people then too. There was much thankless work in small numbers before success.
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but thinking creatively about organizing in a range of industries, not just rhetoric but hard analysis of the industries involved that led to real concrete gains for workers. The Trotskists like Dobbs actually figured out innovative organizing of long-haul trucking.
The best, smartest organizers were in the radical groups. These days, the smart organizers exist in a diverse group of non-profit organizations and among many of the new militant Democratic groups-- and it is to the smart community groups and the militant Dem types that the unions are turning now for new cadres to staff up their new organizing drives.
^^^^ CB: What's the test of whose "smartest" ?
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I just can't see Andy Stern thinking that the Workers World is where he'll find the bright new minds to revive the union movement.
Nathan Newman
^^^^ CB: Maybe