Re: [Marxism] ISO's conference.

[chegitz guevara <absynthe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/22/09, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> chegitz guevara wrote:
>  > While this is true, the number of dual members is dropping. A lot of
>  > us were pretty disappointed with the utterly reformist, economist
>  > politics of Solidarity, even from its left wing. Solidarity is a
>  > rotten cess pool which has somehow convinced everyone it's hot tub.
>
>
> If you want to be taken seriously here, you should deescalate the
>  name-calling and provide some kind of analysis.
>
>  I don't keep track of Solidarity to any great degree, but I assume that
>  they are still involved with Labor Notes and the organizing around that.
>  In the period we are entering, I am damned glad that there are such
>  folks in the trade union movement.

What's the point of such folks being involved with the trade union
movement? They don't bring socialist politics to the workers. Have you
ever read one article in Labor Notes ever endorsing socialist
politics? For all the good Labor Notes does it may as well not even
exist. The purpose of socialists isn't to organize workers simply to
get better contracts.

As far as Solidarity goes, they have abandoned support for socialist
political campaigns, in the deluded hope that the Green Party will
somehow fracture the two party system and lead the workers out of the
Democrats. When Socialist Action, last year, endorsed all the
socialist candidacies running, SP, SWP, SEP, and PSL, Diane Feely
called SA's endorsement silly, counter posing it to support for a
woman who claimed that 5,000 prisoners were taken from New Orleans
after Katrina and secretly executed in the Louisiana bayou, which was
supposed to be serious politics.

The organization prides itself on being able to have a high percentage
of women and people of color showing up for one of its conferences.
This would be truly impressive, had it not done so by having a quota
on the number of white men who could attend.

The organization prides itself on being feminist and antiracist, and
yet, when it fucked up a situation with Black Workers for Justice, it
threw a Black militant woman under the bus, attempting to cast all
blame upon her refusing to take any blame for itself.

>From outside, Solidarity looks great. From inside, it's a wretched
organization. Hell, they expelled me a couple months ago without even
a hearing and didn't even bother to tell me about it until after I
inquired why I was no longer getting email from the group.

Yeah, that's what we need to see more of.

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