I've never gotten around to reading Marx, but... yeah, basically. I think I'm 'ethnically anarchist', in that that's politically the subculture I come from, but am not uniformly influenced by anarchist politics anymore. But thank god for seiu, before I found my calling here I earned my bread moving furniture and letting bristol-meyer squib test drugs on me.
The people who really drive the program in seiu are a couple dozen organizing directors who are a very varied bunch, but with common personality traits and are pretty much all unaffiliated anti-capitalists of one type or another. But almost none of these folks are in a sect, because in seiu, it's seiu that is the party. Nobody has doubts about their loyalty.
In fact, here's a handy chart for the radical types that predominate in different organizing unions (from my limited experience):
SEIU: Either left social democracy, or leninist chain of command and pragmatism. The newest generation is largely ex- or current- anarchists. HERE: Maoism. Seriously, the organizers are have tattos of like chinese soldiers and stuff. UNITE: General lefties, hired a ton of usas kids out of college, can't get rid of em now. CWA, some teamsters: Trotskyists -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20061220/f31a9236/attachment.htm>