[lbo-talk] leftolaborland scandals!

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 15 13:45:36 PDT 2008


At 01:12 PM 4/15/2008, Jim Straub wrote:


>Certainly, you would prefer to spend the 12 hours figuring out what to
>talk about.

No. I have many better things to do.


>I'd say that's the left's approach in general. How's
>that working out, by the way?

Some days a diamond, some days a stone.

As someone asked the other day, does everything have to be reduced to a fucking binary?


>Well I regard -your- distinction-making as activistismism! So there!

What distinction are you talking about?

Just for grins, here's something from a guy fired by SEIU, so maybe we can't trust him:


>Combined with abusing staff–forcing some staff
>workers to work 60 and more hours a week with no
>overtime pay under disrespectful conditions,
>ordering staff to disregard many of the
>grievances and problems of workers, and purging
>the progressive staff--all this harms the labor
>movement, it does not help strengthen it.

http://www.labornotes.org/node/1290



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