Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:57:42 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Flesh it out, then! (was Re: M-I: Reply to Yoshie Furuhashi)


Chris admits:
>While the phrase =ECprioritising working class economic
>issues=EE might need to be fleshed out, but it was not
>my phrase.  It is from the Constitution of the New
>Labour Party and was a formulation settled on after
>considerable discussion of the damage done by radical
>activists and social movements and they way they
>often attacked workers and left trade unions
>undefended.  It is important that communists support
>any move by real elements to create their own
>political movement without being too criticial of the
>form this takes.  I for one will not throw such
>questioning, as did Yoshie, against them.
>
>The fleshing-out that is needed, is a practical
>problem, a problem which is becoming clear for
>workers who are suffering economic deprivation such
>as being kicked out of their jobs, suffering real
>wages cuts and experiencing record and increasing
>personal bankrauptcies.  You won=EDt get these folks
>spending much time marching round and round
>Parliament House trying to ban woodchips.

Why don't you try this fleshing-out, without resorting to an example that
is meant to dismiss many convoluted struggles and conflicts one must face
in real processes of organizing? I am willing to listen (as are other
subscribers).

Yoshie

P.S. I am female, in case you still haven't figured it out.




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