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Lovestruck Theo Wheeland

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brief overview of the labor movement in America

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-05-24

Good stuff. Mill girls, slave revolts, Knights of Labor, the Great Rail Strike, the Wobs, the general strikes (Seattle 1919, West Coast & Minneapolis 1934), Patco, justice for janitors. Book does a good job briefly setting the historical scene of the strikes. A key idea the author explores is the legalization of the labor movement, labor law, NLRA, labor peace, and how American Presidents and Governors respond to militant strikes (illegal, open-ended, escalating, spreading strikes through secondary strikes, etc). The author encourages the labor movement to elect pro-worker politicians who will refuse to send in the army to break strikes (like the Governor of Colorado and FDR for example). Loomis also shows many examples of the changing philosophies of labor leaders (Gomper vs Haywood vs Lane Kirkland vs Sweeney and Trumka). Loomis evidences these characterizations with quotes, decisions labor leaders made, and the interplay between labor leadership and the rank-and-file. One last observation, Loomis makes race, gender, and immigration central topics through which he analyzes & organizes labor history. I would characterize this book as overly charitable to labor misleadership and class-collaboration. It's a book that doesn't wanna ruffle feathers. The conclusion briefly calls for a workers party through realigning the Democratic Party because "it's been done before." The billionaires only allow an FDR is their a credible threat of an October 1917-style workers government knocking at the door. And General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on the many capitalists that moved to kill and coup FDR. As we saw with electing Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Party will not allow even a reformer a fair primary. So the labor movement would be wise to look to the only thing that truly scares the capitalists into surrendering concessions, deeply disciplined international class-struggle with clear class-struggle leadership aiming for world socialism. Workers of the world, unite🤝

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Funny & Insightful: Bernie Bro Falls Out Of A Coconut Tree

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-12-24

Funny book. Warning: if you're a worker, you likely will feel feels. I cried tears of joy. Down with identity reductionism, Dean Spade-ism, anarchism. Up with dialectical historical materialism, democratic centralism, class struggle, and the increasing confidence of the international working class. Join DSA?

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