41 | James Boggs and the Problem of Rights under Capitalism
What's Left of Philosophy
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Trade Unions - Is He a Socialist or a Communist?
C l r james: I didn't actually think of the word scathing when i was reading it. What he's articulating is the classical critique of trade union unions. There's no language of cooptation because there's nothing to cooptit is a part of the system. So people see unions as intrinsically contradictory political organs of the working class. And they become potentially conservative or defensive if conditions of production are changed. They lack political leadership to become organs that go toward socialism, in the absence of a socialist or communist movement or party that tries to influence them.
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