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The Strike and Its Enemies
Ackerman, Seth
http://jacobinmag.com/winter-2012/the-strike-and-its-enemies/Publisher: Jacobin, USA Year Published: 2012 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX13924 Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission. Subject Headings |