On 9/26/07, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is a serious question, one to which I don't know the answer. And
> > your answer is so at odds with the state of political consciousness
> > and organization in the U.S. that it never leaves the realm of
> > fantasy. I just posted an article on how miners in Utah are arguing
> > against tighter safety regulations. That is the state of political
> > consciousness in the U.S. today. C'mon over and help us out.
>
>
> I appreciate the point, and notice that I am not moralising about it
> ("betrayal" and so on). I am saying that the deal is actually fairly poor,
> and we have to see it for what it is. The only way that workers in America
> will get a better deal is if they recover traditions of mass solidarity and
> combativity that have long been submerged and destroyed by, I dunno,
> anticommunism, FBI subversion, and cooptation. It can happen, I'm sure.
> But don't think I'm coming over there to bang my head against that wall in
> person.
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