[Marxism] YADL (Yet another disillusioned liberal)

[Joaquin Bustelo]

S Artesian writes: "If the workers strike and struggle for health insurance,
or universal health care-- of course we support that.  But when the
bourgeoisie offer up Medicare and Medicaid to debilitate any independent
class-based movement, and to place the burden directly back upon the
regressive tax systems of the various states, and to funnel tax dollars into
bigger and greater corporate practices while overall access to essential
health services does not improve for the poor and working class-- we do not,
should not, support that.

"When workers agitate, demand an occupational safety administration, we
should support that and "enhance" that demand by proposing such
administration be responsible to the workers organizations themselves, and
not to executive branch for mis-administration.  But when Nixon proposes his
OSHA, we are under no obligation to support that."

I think S Artesian has hit the nail on the head here -- unwittingly -- by
placing the focus on the struggles by workers for concessions and reforms
from the bourgeoisie.

There are no such struggles/movements in the United States, not on a scale
involving at least a sliver of the masses. So the question isn't really why
support a narrow, limited, bourgeois reform INSTEAD of a class movement
fighting for much more. Those sorts of movements are PRECISELY what we don't
have. 

Joaquin