Date: 05 Nov 96 09:22:52 EST From: jonathan flanders <72763.2240-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: M-I: Union Positions >> Of course, in order to counter the pull towards bureaucracy, our members who take these positions are accountable the their party branches and the local party fractions in their industry. The lack of this discipline will make things harder for Jon should he take a position. Having said that, he's survived all these years as a revolutionary, so I can't imagine he's going to throw it all away now just because he's been elected to some post or other. Lesser mortals should beware though. Adam. << Jon Flanders: Sounds like your organization has a sensible position. I am rather hoping that I don't have to take a position this time. The problem is that I have been on the job long enough for it to have become "my turn". It isn't as if on the local level people are clamoring for the thankless job of battling a huge corporation. When someone has shot off his mouth as much as I have, and something like the CSX takeover looms, the pressure rises for me to do something. I intend to circulate a detailed account of my approach politically if I do run. I want the ranks to know what they are getting into, and give them a chance to decide if this is what they want. As far as the pull to the bureaucracy, I think the fact that the current local chair doesn't want to run again is telling. He has all the attributes of one who could have risen, in the positive sense, things like intelligence and political saavy. The shine is off that path for someone like him these days. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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