Re: trade unions and the left

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 13 Jan 1996 Louis Godena wrote:

> Robert Perrone, I fear, is another example of that element on the left which
> has lost the core of its creed, yet goes on repeating formulas which have
> lost their credibility.  For a hundred years or more, the hopes of the Left
> have been pinned on the workers as the revolutionary class of the future.
> Yet, wherever in the capitalist world revolution has momentarily loomed on
> the horizon--in Germany in 1919, in Britain in 1926, in France in 1968--the
> workers hastened to turn their backs on it.  Today, when the
> "proletariat"--meaning as Marx meant by the term, the organized workers in
> industry--is in steep and irreversible decline, one would hope that a
> re-thinking would be in order.

Louis: I am all confused now. I, Louis Proyect, made Louis Godena angry
when I said to him, "Let's stop beating up on the CP". Louis Godena
replied, "Nonsense, I am in the CP so why would I attack it?".

I thought American Online was just for subscribers in the US. Are you
dialing in from another country? The reason I ask is that the words you
speak above have nothing similar with words I have heard from Scott
Marshall or his eager young comrade Charlotte Kates, our resident Communists.

If you are in the CPUSA, then I will apply for membership straightaway
since I have never heard such strikingly atypical political views from
one of Gus Hall's stalwarts, bless your heart. The Party must have
finally dropped the democratic-centralism nonsense once and for all.

By the way, Louis, I am not a professor, even though I have a Columbia
address. I am a computer programmer and a pretty good one, I must say. I
had dreams several years ago of getting a PhD in Computers and Education
in order to get a teaching job. I took a course or two, but gave up on
the idea after finding myself in brutal arguments with the professors.
Can you imagine that?

What is your story? Where have you come from? Where are you going?




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