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

[Wojtek S]

Doug: "There are different ways to "work with" Dems. You can get
involved, campaign for them, write them checks, etc. - or you can get
out in the streets, sleep in the state capitol, scream, strike, etc.
If you get enough of the latter, the Dems might actually behave more
like a soc dem party. If you do the former, you get nothing."

[WS:] Precisely.  However, I can think of a few more things in
addition to getting out in the streets that are of more continuous, if
not permanent nature - such as forming inside organizations to
counterbalance the dreadful DLC or its spinoffs.

While we are at this, I recall a cartoon in an old issue of The
Nation, comparing the conservative and liberal political behavior.
The former engaged in various acts of organizing, the latter - in
various acts of talking.  This, I think nicely explains why
conservatives get nearly all they want whereas liberals are left in
the dust.  What happened to Tony Mazzocchi's Labor Party that was
supposed to provide political representation of workers' interests?  I
used to be a card carrying member, but the organization seem to
fizzled out.

Wojtek