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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Though I have to say that sometimes it seems like SEIU is an<br>employment scheme for praxis-minded Marxists.
<br><br>Doug</blockquote>
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<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>In fact, here's a handy chart for the radical types that predominate in different organizing unions (from my limited experience):</div>
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<div>SEIU: Either left social democracy, or leninist chain of command and pragmatism. The newest generation is largely ex- or current- anarchists.</div>
<div>HERE: Maoism. Seriously, the organizers are have tattos of like chinese soldiers and stuff.</div>
<div>UNITE: General lefties, hired a ton of usas kids out of college, can't get rid of em now.</div>
<div>CWA, some teamsters: Trotskyists</div>
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