[lbo-talk] A question about the "ally" concept

[Charles Brown]

"Solidarity" means mainly with all wage-laborers especially of the
hand in the US 1930's.  Many of the wage rates being pretty much
equal. So, intra-cross alliances included many with as well off or
slightly better off.

AFL-CIO institutionalizes alliance with those of roughly equal income,
the so-called middle class.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it ever used for dealing with a group of people who have it as well, or
> better off, than you, on your specific plane of struggle?
>
> (By that, I mean low-income workers supporting their unionized and
> better-paid counterparts in labor campaigns, etc.)
>
> Or is it strictly, for lack of a better term, a downward slope?
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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