[lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/28/07, Mark Rickling <mrickling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The truth is that, while a majority of Americans support the idea of
> > single-payer health care in the abstract, they are not motivated
> > enough to build a mass movement for it, at least for now, nor are
> > leftists capable of getting together any time soon to start organizing
> > such a thing or anything else for that matter.
>
> Unfortunately unions seems to be suffering from the same infirmity as leftists:

I largely agree with you, except I'd add that unions have "about 30
years" to decline to nothingness, according to Doug, whereas we are
starting from square one, if not less than zero.  :-0

In any case, it is futile to look to Andy Stern and SEIU as an
institution (no matter how many individual leftists like Jim are found
in it) to lead a struggle for socialized medicine.  They are not just
uninterested in it -- they are opposed to it.  Organized labor in the
USA is not just opposed to socialism -- it's opposed to social
democracy, not just abroad (through the Solidarity Center), but here
as well.  It's like the Democratic Party.  Criticizing them for not
doing for what they are opposed to is a wrong way to go, for it
perpetuates an illusion.
-- 
Yoshie