Date: Sat, 2 Mar 96 8:22:37 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Labor Party,USA -- A question







		Carlos,




	It's very simple, nobody but labor unions is going to support working
people economically.  No revolution is imminent and no laws, except for a
minimum wage will help.  Labor is the only faction that can make a clear,
logical argument about wage stagnation, what causes it, and what to do about
it.  Non-union workers clearly benefit from unions.  Anything that raises the
prevailing wage is good for workers.  



	Labor can also take anti-racism, feminism, and environmentalism out of
the moralist closet and show a practical and logical connection between them
and opposition to capital.  The necessity of comradeship is the practical
side of getting along with people.  When you explain to people that there is
an alternative to the competitive vision of success, they can understand the
need to treat the people well who will support them in the practical struggle
for good wages.  When you get people to see that the interests of property
for profit, and private property as THEY understand it are different, you can
foster indignation at the pissing on and pissing away of our natural heritage
by the greedy.  



	Labor is the lynch-pin to socialist logic.





	peace,





		boddhisatva







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