Re: Reply to: Re: labor party and class cons

[Jeffrey Booth <booth2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,
        Have you seen the James Connolly statue in Troy?  It's downtown,
next to a hotel in an area that I believe is called "Riverfront Park".
Connolly lived in Troy for awhile as a union organizer.

                        -- Jeff Booth

On 16 Jul 1996, Jon Flanders wrote:

>  >> I would argue that it IS a step forward, in the way you outlined, for the
> majority of workers. But it is ALSO a step backward for the minority of
> socialist activists, who used to look outside Congress, to the streets and the
> workplaces,  for change and now look to elections, Congress, etc. <<Adam Rose
>
>  Jon Flanders:
>
>   I guess that would be true Adam, if one did that. I hope I don't. As to your
> predictions of the future, I tend to shy away from that. In this country, we
> have the example of the Republican party, that established itself to limit
> slavery and ended up, after a great civil war, abolishing it. There are always
> lots of old battles to draw predictions from.
>
>  Senile reformism here  is the province of the Democrats, to whom the labor
> officials are firmly wedded still. A better analogy for the LP here would be
> Scargill's SLP I suppose.
>
>   I have been rereading v2 of Yvonne Kapps' biography of Eleanor Marx. Have
> you read it? There is some great stuff about the eight hours movement, the New
> Unionism and Engels views and last days. Not to mention Eleanor herself, a
> remarkable woman, who must stand in the front rank in anyone's socialist
> pantheon. She spoke here in Troy, on her grand tour of the US in 1886. I would
> love to find a record of that meeting!
>
>   E-mail from: Jonathan E. Flanders, 16-Jul-1996
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