[lbo-talk] SEIU scandal

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 11 06:38:12 PDT 2008


On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Jim Straub wrote:


> A quibble: how on earth is our union 'stalinist'?

I think the phrase - and I didn't coin it - is "Stalinism without the ideology." I.e., a centralized cult of personality. But it's also been described as a cult of personality without the personality. The point of both is that it's an increasingly top-down antidemocratic structure.



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