Re: [Marxism] Los Angeles working class movements

[thomas muntzer <immune_from_demoralization@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter's conception of politics is: who should we cheer for?  How loudly?  How 
should we cheer for them?  And conversely: how should we denounce those who 
refuse to cheer ("criticism-ism-ists?") ("sectarians?") ("Trotskyists")?  With 
a rhetorical strategy including such time tested techniques as race-baiting and 
red-baiting and newer "relativist" techniques such as saying "I'm writing from 
Cuba which gives me a better vantage point" "I'm 63 and you're '23'," etc.  
Never a word about what should be the road forward for revolutionaries here and 
now let alone in L.A.  Never a word about his own class struggle work in L.A. 
or his own discussions with workers here in L.A.(whose left I am very familiar 
with and which he seems to play no role in whatsoever). Does that sound 
politically discrediting enough?  Can he deny any of this?

  Even the idea that socialists have something to offer to the L.A. working 
class during the present upsurge rubs Walter the wrong way?  Why?  Because he 
made his exit from revolutionary politics and wants to justify that.  But if he 
supports the left wing of the union staff he should at least for work as an 
organizer for HERE local 11 - they are hungry for organizers -- but he'll have 
to shut up about Cuba and Venezuela when talking to the membership.

                
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