[lbo-talk] How to explain things to (right-wing) libertarians

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 31 20:39:39 PDT 2007



>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>
>It was from the mid-nineties that socialists in general, and Debs in
>particular, became his organization's main competition, and his rhetoric
>became anti-socialist (and anti-immigrant), and his tactics became more
>collaborationist. Ironically of course the emergence of the socialists was
>one of the two things that made such tactics possible. It was only when
>there was something scary to his left, and Progressives in power, that big
>business and the government wanted to embrace him as part of their "third
>way."

Aha. That squares with my original point that "any kind of successful bargaining is to *start* from an extreme, unreasonable, uncompromising position." Without the socialists taking an extreme, unreasonable, uncompromising position, Gompers and his AFL would have been ignored by government and business.

Carl

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