[lbo-talk] U.S. auto sector socialized! WITBD?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 28 13:00:29 PDT 2009


On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Evenn the "real" socialism instituted by Labor in the 1940s -- it
> never
> really put even a serious dent in English capital, and for several
> yers
> now even the Nztional Health Service has been under pressure. It is a
> rather disghusting perversion of the meaning of 200 years of socialist
> struggle to dignify mere nationalization as even a distant cousin of
> socialism.

I'm talking about the United Fucking Auto Workers. You've heard of them, right? They are about to have large stakes in two very large companies, Chrysler and GM. You've heard of them, right? Can you stop sounding like a cranky robot, or is it just too deeply ingrained?

Doug



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