On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:52 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Dou's uncertainty about whether it iw more like that
> we stop the assault on the New Deal or return to the
> 19th centuty is pretty optimistic. In the 19th century
> militant labor used thser strike as a powerful weapon,
> and some unions like the Railway Woekers were headed
> by reds like Debs. So, I think we'd be lucky to get
> back to the 19th century.
Except the workers mostly lost, and often got shot. There were no social benefits either. Militancy isn't a value in itself if it can't deliver anything.
Doug