Re: [Marxism] "Unions" & "Workers" are not the same

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lance Murdoch wrote:
>
>
> You think working for universal health care (never mind single payer)
> is probably more promising than work within union locals?

Working in any struggle that happens to come along! Revolutionary
movements emerge from mass popular struggles. As I said, we have no
crystal ball. Who three years and two months ago would have guessed that
there would be an anti-war struggle emerging within a month? The core
point is that nothing much for over 60 years has come from work in
unions. My wife was active in her APWU local for nearly 20 years
(president for 4 years); busy work. Before that she worked for several
years attempting to organize clerical workers at ISU. No political
results emerged from that either.

Something like a union movement will have to emerge sooner or later
(Marx's general arguments in _Wages, Price and Profit_ still hold), but
to make unions as they now exist a major part of marxist political
activity is simply quite silly.

Carrol


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