Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:55:33 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-G: Poisoning the youth


The MIM is a disgrace to Marxism. They condemn the American working class
as counter-revolutionary. The American working class is in a bitter
conflict with the capitalist class that can be observed any day of the
week. It is fighting for higher wages, clean air and water, the right to
affordable medical care and a myriad of other improvements in their daily
life. Meanwhile, the capitalist class keeps attacking these rights.

The only class in this society that has the power to transform society is
the working class. All rhetoric about how evil the system is just hot air.
Nobody needs MIM to remind us that the system is unjust. The burning need
is to explain how socialists can begin to make a difference in the working
class.

I am currently reading a manuscript by Michael Yates on the union movement.
It is not written for a left-wing audience, but ordinary working people. It
makes the case that workers do better when they have unions. Not only are
their wages higher on average, they also don't have to worry about being
fired at the drop of a hat. Grievance procedures not only make it easier to
fire a worker, they also encourage more self-confidence in the ranks.

The hostility of MIM toward trade unions is absolutely reactionary. The
ruling class has been in a 25 year offensive to destroy the trade unions
and these "Marxists" attack them as well. In one of the most important
trade union struggles of the past few years, the Detroit newspaper strike,
these clowns condemned the strikers.

Louis Proyect


At 01:23 PM 1/21/98 EST, you wrote:
>Louis Proyect:   I really value the MIM posts and articles; they're 
>dependably well-written and always worth reading and considering.
>What was the intended use of your sarcastic post?  Simply to 
>trivialize MIM posts?  If so, it didn't work.
>
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