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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fw: "The UAW is a paradigm of a suicidal, supplicant
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<DIV>Voting is for suckers, Ralph Nader is a fraud, and the UAW is an arm of
management. </DIV>
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<DIV>--Nothing has every changed in this country except through
mass movements--the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the
anti-Vietnam movement. The role of the electoral process is to get people off
the streets and into the voting booth. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>--Ralph Nader's role is to keep people from organizing against the system.
Here's an example. I was visited last week by a young woman canvassing
door-to-door for MASSPIRG, the Nader-sponsored Massachusetts Public
Interest Research Group. She was asking for signatures on a petition to get more
recycling. I said, "With the US making war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,
with the banks looting ordinary Americans to the tune of $24 trillion, with
Social Security under attack and the country being run by psychopaths, why the
hell are you spending your time on recycling. We need a revolution to overthrow
the capitalist system and create real democracy." She agreed with me but said
that this was the only job she could get.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I told her some of the history of Nader and the PIRGs. Nader began
Public Interest Research Groups back in 1970-73, when the student anti-war
movement was at its height. There were student strikes and sit-ins against ROTC
going on all over the country, and students were confronting the university
administrations' complicity in the war effort. Nader's plan was to get students
to stop confronting the college administrations and to get them to drop the
anti-war movement for something nice and tame that wouldn't challenge the
system. So he set up Public Interest Research Groups, starting with campuses in
New York and Massachusetts. The PIRGs were funded--get this--by a kind of dues
check-off system; that is, every student was charged $1 as part of his tuition
and fees; this money, to be administered by the college administration, was then
used to fund campus PIRGs.</DIV>
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<DIV>The students recruited to the PIRGs then acted like good boys and girls.
They worked with the college administration on such burning issues as "Bottle
Bills"--i.e., cleaning up the environment by requiring a deposit on
soda and beer bottles. Nader's role was to domesticate dissent. He and his
PIRG recruits worked with college administrators to try to marginalize
radicals--anyone who persisted in organizing against the war or challenged the
university's role in legitimizing capitalism. Nader is all about saving
capitalism, not condemning it and certainly not overthrowing it. (If you watch
some of Chris Hedges' videos, you'll see he is into the same thing. In his
October 15, 2010 he says "The alternative to liberal values is nihilism." That's
BS. Most people are not liberals and their values are superior to "liberal"
values any day. Hedges cautions, "We must always remember that we are not trying
to take power." Huh? We're not? So then we have to let power stay in the hands
of war criminals and psychopaths?)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>--The UAW has been an arm of management for years, and it didn't just
start with selling out Delphi or Caterpillar or pension rights. What
was "jointness" all about if not getting workers to identify with the
company and compete against other workers? Why did UAW staffers break the 1973
Dodge strike with baseball bats and pipes? What was the 1950 five-year contract
all about, if not to bind workers in conditions that the UAW would manage?
(for more on these questions, see
<P class=sub_title align=center><A
href="http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/How%20Unions%20Killed.htm"><FONT
color=#ccffcc><FONT color=#ff0000>How the Unions Killed the Working Class
Movement</FONT> </FONT></A> by Dave Stratman (June 13, 2006)</P>
<P class=sub_title align=center><A
href="http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/Work/Fight%20to%20Win.htm"><FONT
color=#ff0000>Fight to Win: A Strategy for Working People</FONT></A><FONT
color=#ff0000> (</FONT><A
href="http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/Work/Fight%20to%20Win.htm"><FONT
color=#ff0000>html</FONT></A><FONT color=#ff0000>) (</FONT><A
href="http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/Work/Fight%20to%20Win.pdf"><FONT
color=#ff0000>.pdf</FONT></A><FONT color=#ff0000>)(</FONT>August 12,
2005))</P></DIV>
<DIV>The fact of the matter is that working people have been betrayed by the
institutions that we thought were our own: the unions, the Democratic
Party, even the churches and synagogues. No voice comes from these to rally the
people against the rulers. We are on our own. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We need to begin afresh. We need to look at our real situation, the whole
ugly reality of it. We need to look at ourselves and realize that our power
never came from the UAW or Democratic Party or the other institutions that
claimed to speak for us, but from our own solidarity and values and fighting
spirit. We need to imagine and fight for an alternative to capitalism. We
need to build small groups that can grow into a powerful revolutionary
movement. We need to challenge capitalist power, plans, and goals with
the power and goals of working people. We need to break the stranglehold of Wall
Street and the war profiteers and corporatocracy on our lives and
create a new society.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Dave
Stratman<BR><A
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Moraine Street<BR>Boston, MA 02130<BR>617-524-4073
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> "The UAW is a paradigm of a suicidal, supplicant labor
union. It is disgusting. They are a puppy dog of GM, Ford and
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<DIV>"The UAW is a paradigm of a suicidal, supplicant labor union. It is
disgusting. They are a puppy dog of GM, Ford and Chrysler."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face="tahoma, sans-serif">‘The Left Has
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<H4>Jan 3, 2011</H4>
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<P><B>“Every major movement starts with field organizers, the farmers, unions,
and the civil rights movement. But there is nothing out there. We need to
start learning from what was done in the past. All over the country people are
pissed off. They hate Wall Street. They know they are being gouged. They know
they are slipping behind. They know their kids will not be as well off as they
were, and they were not that well off. But no one is putting it together. Who
could put a thousand organizers in the field, besides George Soros? The labor
unions. They have the money. They have a lot of cash. These idiots are going
down. The UAW is a paradigm of a suicidal, supplicant labor union. It is
disgusting. They are a puppy dog of GM, Ford and Chrysler. They have huge
reserves. The labor unions could organize the country, but they are into their
own emoluments and high salaries. The union leadership has so distanced itself
from the rank and file that it is ashamed to do anything controversial. These
union leaders will not go on TV on Labor Day because they do not want someone
saying ‘Why are you making $500,000 a year with a pension that is six times
your rank and file?’ There is corruption at the top. The only way the union
leaders can continue is to be in the shadows. And you don’t build a strong
movement in the shadows." <BR></B></P>
<P><B>
-- Ralph Nader<BR></B></P>
<P>By Chris Hedges.</P>
<P>Ralph Nader in a CNN poll a few days before the 2008 presidential election
had an estimated 3 percent of the electorate, or about 4 million people,
behind his candidacy. But once the votes were counted, his support dwindled to
a little over 700,000. Nader believes that many of his supporters entered the
polling booth and could not bring themselves to challenge the Democrats and
Barack Obama. I suspect Nader is right. And this retreat is another example of
the lack of nerve we must overcome if we are going to battle back against the
corporate state. A vote for Nader or Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney in
2008 was an act of defiance. A vote for Obama and the Democrats was an act of
submission. We cannot afford to be submissive anymore.</P>
<P>“The more outrageous the Republicans become, the weaker the left becomes,”
Nader said when I reached him at his home in Connecticut on Sunday. “The more
outrageous they become, the more the left has to accept the slightly less
outrageous corporate Democrats.”</P>
<P>Nader fears a repeat of the left’s cowardice in the next election, a
cowardice that has further empowered the lunatic fringe of the Republican
Party, maintained the role of the Democratic Party as a lackey for
corporations, and accelerated the reconfiguration of the country into a
neo-feudalist state. Either we begin to practice a fierce moral autonomy and
rise up in multiple acts of physical defiance that have no discernable
short-term benefit, or we accept the inevitability of corporate slavery. The
choice is that grim. The age of the practical is over. It is the impractical,
those who stand fast around core moral imperatives, figures like Nader or
groups such as Veterans for Peace, which organized the recent anti-war rally
in Lafayette Park in Washington, which give us hope. If you were one of the
millions who backed down in the voting booth in 2008, don’t do it again. If
you were one of those who thought about joining the Washington protests
against the war where 131 of us were arrested and did not, don’t fail us next
time. The closure of the mechanisms within the power system that once made
democratic reform possible means we stand together as the last thin line of
defense between a civil society and its disintegration. If we do not engage in
open acts of defiance, we will empower a radical right-wing opposition that
will replicate the violence and paranoia of the state. To refuse to defy in
every way possible the corporate state is to be complicit in our
strangulation. </P>
<P>“The left has nowhere to go,” Nader said. “Obama knows it. The corporate
Democrats know it. There will be criticism by the left of Obama this year and
then next year they will all close ranks and say ‘Do you want Mitt Romney? Do
you want Sarah Palin? Do you want Newt Gingrich?’ It’s very predictable. There
will be a year of criticism and then it will all be muted. They don’t
understand that even if they do not have any place to go, they ought to fake
it. They should fake going somewhere else or staying home to increase the
receptivity to their demands. But because they do not make any demands, they
are complicit with corporate power.</P>
<P>“Corporate power makes demands all the time,” Nader went on. “It pulls on
the Democrats and the Republicans in one direction. By having this
nowhere-to-go mentality and without insisting on demands as the price of your
vote, or energy to get out the vote, they have reduced themselves to a cipher.
They vote. The vote totals up. But it means nothing.”</P>
<P>There is no major difference between a McCain administration, a Bush and an
Obama administration. Obama, in fact, is in many ways worse. McCain, like
Bush, exposes the naked face of corporate power. Obama, who professes to
support core liberal values while carrying out policies that mock these
values, mutes and disempowers liberals, progressives and leftists.
Environmental and anti-war groups, who plead with Obama to address their
issues, are little more than ineffectual supplicants.</P>
<P>Obama, like Bush and McCain, funds and backs our unending and unwinnable
wars. He does nothing to halt the accumulation of the largest deficits in
human history. The drones murder thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, as they did under Bush and would have done under McCain. The private
military contractors, along with the predatory banks and investment houses,
suck trillions out of the U.S. Treasury as efficiently under Obama. Civil
liberties, including habeas corpus, have not been restored. The public option
is dead. The continuation of the Bush tax cuts, adding some $900 billion to
the deficit, along with the reduction of individual contributions to Social
Security, furthers a debt peonage that will be the excuse to privatize Social
Security, slash social services and break the back of public service unions.
Obama does not intercede as tens of millions of impoverished Americans face
foreclosures and bankruptcies. The Democrats provide better cover. But the
corporate assault is the same.</P>
<P>“Obama has the formula now,” Nader said. “You give the Republicans a lot of
what they want. Many of them vote for you. You get your Democrat percentage.
You weave a hybrid victory. That is what he learned in the lame-duck session.
He gets praised as being a statesman and a leader and getting things done.
Think of all the rewards he can contemplate while he is in Hawaii compared to
what they were saying about him on Nov. 5. All the columnists and pundits say
that now he can work with John Boehner. But once you take a broader view, it
is the difference in the mph of corporatism. McCain is 50 miles per hour and
Obama is 40 miles per hour.</P>
<P>“The left has disemboweled itself,” Nader said. “It doesn’t even have a
strategy every four years like a good poker player. The best example is
Richard Trumka and the AFL-CIO. Obama has given them nothing. Therefore, they
are demanding nothing. They huff and puff. They make tough speeches. But
Trumka hasn’t even made Obama’s campaign pledge of a $9.50 minimum wage by
this year an issue. If you want to increase consumer demand, what better way
to do it than to unleash $300 billion in wages? The card check for
unionization, which Obama pledged as his No. 1 sop to the labor unions, is
dead. The unions do not even demand a hearing. And now wait till you see what
they will do to the public employee unions. Part of it is their own fault.
They are going to be crushed. Everybody is ganging up on them. You have new
class warfare. It is non-unionized lower income and middle class taking it out
on the unionized middle-income public employees. It is a classic example of
oligarchic manipulation. It will start playing out big time in New York State
with Andrew Cuomo and others. They will start saying, ‘Why are you getting
this? Most workers who pay the taxes, who pay your salaries, are not getting
this.’ This plays.”</P>
<P>The banishment from the corporate media, Nader argues, has been one of the
major contributors to the demoralization and weakening of the left. Protests
by the left, which get little national or local coverage, have steadily
dwindled in strength across the country. The first protest gets little or no
coverage and this leads to movements, as well as the voices of activists,
being diminished and finally suffocated. </P>
<P>“The so-called liberal media, along with Fox, is touting the tea party and
publicizing Palin,” Nader said. “There was an editorial on Dec. 27 in The New
York Times on the Repeal Amendment, the right-wing constitutional amendment to
allow states to overturn federal law. The editorial writer at the end had the
nerve to say there is no progressive champion. The editorial said that the
liberals and progressives have faded out to let the tea party make history.
And yet, for months, all The New York Times has done is promote Sarah Palin
and Glenn Beck. They promote Newt Gingrich and the neocons on the Op-Ed pages.
The book pages of the newspaper ignore progressive authors and pump all the
right-wing authors.</P>
<P>“If we don’t raise hell, we won’t get any media,” Nader said. “If we don’t
get any media, the perception will be that the tea party is the big deal.</P>
<P>“On one notorious Sunday, Oct. 10, two of The New York Times’ segments led
with a big story about Ann Coulter and how she will change her strategy
because she is being outflanked by others,” Nader said. “There was also a huge
article on this anti-Semite against Arabs, this Islamaphobe, Pam Geller. Do
you know how many pictures they had of Geller? Twenty on this front-page
segment. The number of anti-war Op-Eds in The Washington Post over nine months
in 2009 was 6-to-1 pro-war. We don’t raise hell. We don’t say Terry Gross is a
censor. We don’t say that Charlie Rose is a censor. We have got to blast
publicly. We have got to hammer them, because they are the tribune of
right-wing fascist forces.</P>
<P>“Three thousand people rallied to protest the invasion and massacre in Gaza
two years ago,” Nader said. “It was held four blocks from The Washington Post.
It did not get a single paragraph. People should march over to the Post and
say ‘Fuck you! What are you doing here? You cover every little blip by the
right-wing and you don’t cover us?’ </P>
<P>“They are afraid of the right-wing because the right-wing bellows, and they
have become right-wing,” Nader said of the commercial press. “They have become
fascinated by the bias of Fox. And they publicize what Fox is biased on. The
coverage of O’Reilly and Beck and their fights is insane. In the heyday of
coverage in the 1960s of what we were doing, it was always less than it should
have been, but now it is almost zero. Why do we take this? Why do we accept
this? Why isn’t Chris Hedges three times a year in the Op-Ed? Why is it always
Paul Wolfowitz and Elliott Abrams and all these homicidal maniacs? Why are
they there? Why is John Bolton constantly published in The Washington Post and
The New York Times? Where is Andrew Bacevich? Bacevich told me he has had five
straight Op-Eds rejected by the Post and the Times in the last two years. And
he said he is not inclined to send anymore. How many times do you hear Hoover
Institution? American Enterprise Institute? Manhattan Institute. These
goddamned newspapers should be picketed.”</P>
<P>The timidity and silencing of the left fuels the steady impoverishment of a
dispossessed working class and a beleaguered middle class. It solidifies a
corporate oligarchy that is dismantling the anemic regulatory agencies that
once protected citizens from predatory corporations. The economic system is
designed to bail out Wall Street rather than replace the trillions of dollars
and millions of jobs lost by workers. And the only hope left, Nader argues, is
if the conservatives in the right-wing movement break from the corporatists.
If the big banks again start going to the cliff and calling for new bailouts,
Nader says, this may provoke a schism between conservative groups embodied by
figures such as Ron Paul, and corporate lackeys.</P>
<P>“Every major movement starts with field organizers, the farmers, unions,
and the civil rights movement,” Nader said. “But there is nothing out there.
We need to start learning from what was done in the past. All over the country
people are pissed off. They hate Wall Street. They know they are being gouged.
They know they are slipping behind. They know their kids will not be as well
off as they were, and they were not that well off. But no one is putting it
together. Who could put a thousand organizers in the field, besides George
Soros? The labor unions. They have the money. They have a lot of cash. These
idiots are going down. The UAW is a paradigm of a suicidal, supplicant labor
union. It is disgusting. They are a puppy dog of GM, Ford and Chrysler. They
have huge reserves. The labor unions could organize the country, but they are
into their own emoluments and high salaries. The union leadership has so
distanced itself from the rank and file that it is ashamed to do anything
controversial. These union leaders will not go on TV on Labor Day because they
do not want someone saying ‘Why are you making $500,000 a year with a pension
that is six times your rank and file?’ There is corruption at the top. The
only way the union leaders can continue is to be in the shadows. And you don’t
build a strong movement in the shadows.</P>
<P>“The black swan question is whether something will erupt that is rare,
extreme and unpredictable,” Nader said. “It is amazing that it hasn’t happened
in any pockets of the country. How much more can the oppressed take before
they revolt? And can they revolt without organizers? These are the two
important questions. You have got to have organizers, and as of now we
don’t.”</P>
<P><I>Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. His newest book
is <A
title=http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586442?SubscriptionId=1XWTFJ60BR6QZ1PW9FR2&tag=truthdig-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1568586442
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target=_blank>“Death of the Liberal Class.”</A></I></P>
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