Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:42:47 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Perplexing Ilan



Agree with you on the trade union issue Nate. 

The point surely is that it is impossible for many
mass workers' organiations like trade unions to
operate under the principles of libertarian communism
now - if they many of them did, then we'd be living in
a postrevolutionary society. 

Even in Argentina today, a trade union bureaucracy
still exists - it's inevitable, as long as capitalism
exists. 

It's precisely because trade unions have bureaucractic
leadership and undemocratic structures that we work in
them. The same goes for national liberation struggles.
Being involved pushing anti-cap politics in an
undemocratic union or a nationalist liberation
struggle does not make you a party to bureaucracy or
nationalism - it makes you an effective opponent of
those things, because you are exploiting the
contradiction between the base and the leadership of
the organisation. You have to be in to win.

Cheers
Scott
 

===="Revolution is not like cricket, not even one day cricket"

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