File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9802, message 355


Date: Fri, 20 Feb 98 9:28:10 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Worker Paycheck Fairness Act







		C. Godena,




	The bill should be rejected out of hand since it is an obvious
attempt to harass labor and meant only to serve that purpose.  What is
interesting about it is that it reflects the depths to which labor has
sunk, and the divergence between main-stream left politics and any sense
of class identification.  For the membership it should be a no-brainer -
your union does what is best for unionism.  If you belong to a union and,
say, the NRA or a "right-to-life" group, your dues money for each group
will be going to opposite parties in support of specific issues.  In a
reformist world, that should be no surprise.  

	To a Marxist, that picture is wrong.  It should be to a unionist
as well, but American unions have given up promoting unionism and simply
promote themselves.  This makes sense in a context of left-wing politics
that have become a laundry list of special interest issues.  The right has
capitalism, cultural imperialism and Christianity to unite them.  The
left has nothing and unions have simply become another check-box on the
laundry list. 







	peace





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