Re: [Marxism] IWW and anti-imperialism

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is terribly dismissive, given that you have not read the book which is
extremely well researched. Perhaps you are right that Sakai's critique of
the IWW is somewhat misplaced (was police repression really the major cause
of its decline?). Is your argument that the IWW never bowed to racist
pressure to sustain the support of its membership? Even if you are right on
this score, does this justify abandoning Sakai's understanding of the
racialized labor aristocracy in America wholesale? I am surprised that you
do not extend the previous critiques you have made of syndicalist ideology
to the syndicalism of the IWW. Is your own 'ideological construct' akin to
Ginsberg's 'sentimental' regard for the wobblies?

In any case, the question is not strictly one of the racial demographic
composure of militant American trade-unionism (although I suspect the
statistics on this score would be salutory), but of strategic political
principle. (My questions regarding the Irish or arab membership of British
and Israeli trade unions were quite apropos IMO). Were the IWW the party of
'all the way' anti-imperialist revolution in a period of intense working
class struggle or not?

LOUIS PROYECT WROTE:

> The more important question is what Sakai's "settler" ideology has to do
> with Marxism. From what I can see, it is warmed over SDS Weathermen bunk.

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