[lbo-talk] Stern's illusion and democracy's nightmare

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 25 07:25:19 PDT 2008


On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote:


> Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and
> labor's latest celebrity, seems to be resurrecting a neglected
> ideology: the
> concept of a militarized "democratic" centralism.

A friend reported to me the other day that a former SEIU organizer described the culture of the organization as "Stalinism minus the ideology."

Doug



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