Re: [Marxism] FreshDirect

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andy writes: "Are you out of your mind? Now you're defending not only Latin@
exploiters but white capitalists as well?
White capitalists fire Latin@ workers to bust a unionization drive and you
cover for them?"

The only thing I'd read about fresh direct was Louis's short comment and (as
it turned out) a shortened version of the Times article sent out by a wire
service that I'd seen at work, and left out all references to the Teamsters
and the unionization drive. I was unaware of the Teamster's involvement.  

But on the general point, I don't think you folks have a clue about the
situation in the Latino community right now, nor about the real social and
class relations in this country.

What has come to the fore is the character of the United States as a
European colonial-settler enclave in the Americas. 

I understand the need of white bureaucrats to find themselves some new
members so they can keep their cushy jobs and expense accounts. I wish them
all the best. But in terms of union organizing at heavily Latino workplaces,
the legitimate organizing drives are those where the organizers and union
higher-ups are willing to interpose their bodies --physically-- between the
workers and the immigration Gestapo. The others, at this point, are,
whatever the intentions, quite likely to wind up as Judas goat operations.

The reason for this is quite simple, and it has to do with how I referred to
la migra above. The left and the unions are living in a bourgeois democracy.
The Latino community isn't. 

Joaquín


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