>For the record: I read books. Even ones with no pictures. All the
>way through. Proud of it. Enjoy it immensely.
The point is the claim that labor as an institution is anti-intellectual and brain dead has been brought up here before and the response is generally individualized, e.g. someting like what you say here.
If someone responds to what Doug wrote earlier I'm all ears:
> >> And one reason for this is that our labor movement is so braindead
> >> and
> >> anti-intellectual.
> >
> >
> > Would you care to elaborate on that, ot should the pronouncement
> > suffice?
>
>Gosh. You're right. I've forgotten all those vigorous newspapers,
>journals, websites, and TV shows the labor movement sponsors. And
>all the internal education of the members. And the way that the
>union leadership shows such a visionary understanding of the
>political and economic conjuncture. I must be getting old.
>
>Doug
>
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