[PEN-L:11631] Re: Re: American Working Class & Anti-Imperialism (was Re: Empiricism)

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is an interesting question which does not have, I think, a pat answer.
The Machinists Union, refusing to give in to Johnson's "jawboning"
against inflation won a good contract from one or more of the airlines --
and that in many ways contributed to the eventual defeat of the U.S.
in Vietnam. I wouldn't exactly call it "progressive," but it did indicate
that there were limits to u.s. workers' gullibility in giving in to
patriotism (anti-communism).

Carrol


Michael Perelman wrote:

> Yoshie, is what you describe an indication of progressivism?  Were Buchanan,
> Gingrich .... progressive when they did not want to go to Vietnam?  Or were
> they just willing to send somone else to Vietnam?
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Well, I, for one, think that the American working class were and are by far
> > more progressive than, say, Bogdan Denitch on the very question of
> > anti-imeprialism!  At least American people don't want to see their sons &
> > daughters (and their friends' sons & daughters) dying in whatever 'hot
> > spots' that the mass media happen to designate.
>
> --
>
> Michael Perelman
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> California State University
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