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[Miles Jackson]

MICHAEL YATES wrote:
> Eric says unions are anachronistic.  I don't understand this.  Can you 
> explain what you mean?  It might be that new forms of workers' organization 
> are needed.  Maybe we can call thme something else.  But don't workers need 
> some collective way to fight employers as much as they ever did?  They need 
> more too, I'll grant you.
>
> Michael Yates
>
>   
I see it this way: anyone who advocates socialism is advocating the 
abolition of (capitalist) employers.  If there are no employers, there 
is no compelling need for unions.  Unions are a stopgap measure in a 
capitalist society to wrestle a bit of surplus value back from the 
capitalists, but they are not integral to the socialist world I want to 
live in (hey, I can dream, can't I?).

Miles