On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
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>> Very interesting was Livingston's take on Gompers.
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> Indeed. I had no idea that Gompers saw the AFL as some sort of
> embryonic new society forming in the womb of the old.
Gompers came out of a socialist movement whose greatest activist was Debs and greatest theoretician was De Leon. He had to fight their criticisms. He knew that to walk right (craft unionism) you gotta talk left (new society a-formin').
Shane Mage
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