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

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Fri Apr 25 09:36:55 PDT 2008


On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Steven L. Robinson quoted Herman Benson:
>
>> 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."

My old comrade from Shachtmanite days Herman Benson (nom de plume then was "Ben Hall") has done a magnificent job of pinning Stern without having to use the S word.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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