[lbo-talk] blog post: radical labor education, part 5: a new labor movement?

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  Not really.  I think cooptation -if it indeed happened- would
not be such a bad thing.  The chances of a revo or even a government
collapse under protest in the US is nil.

I understand - and share- the disgust many on list feel toward
Democrats - but that is the only chance that we have.  So the  choice
is to either hold your nose and work with them or else masturbate
gloomily.

Wojtek

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> The problem is that even if Wisconsin protest movements spreads
>> it will either fizzle out or - in the best case scenario - it will be
>> coopted by mainstream interests, most likely Democrats.  According to
>> William Gamson, who studied social movements in the US for the past
>> 100+ years (_The Strategy of Social Protest_) these have been the
>> outcomes of social protest movements in the US.
>
> You may be right, but what's the alternative? Masturbate gloomily?
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