On Dec 6, 2007 5:06 PM, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer > and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever > growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state > of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against > another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat > one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing > class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class > have interests in common with their employers. > > These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class > upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its > members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease > work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, > thus making an injury to one an injury to all. > > Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's > work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, > "Abolition of the wage system." > > It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with > capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for > everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production > when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially > we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of > the old.
Leigh, Very well said. I like your thoughtful posts much better than the sarcasm :) -raghu.
