No subject

question all formulations I inherited from the period of Lenin. I  was 
already on that path along with everyone else. 
 
Daniel De Leon coined the term, "labor lieutenants" of the capitalist  class. 
 Family members and I were "labor lieutenants of the capitalist  class."  
This term is purely American and one cannot be historically or  currently "wrong" 
to deploy it.  However, what is being isolated is the  upper strata of labor 
in its organizational expression. 
 
This is not to say that the workers in America are not in a "privileged"  
position in the world system of bourgeois production. Privileged is in quotes to  
denote being at the front of the curve of industrial development and capital  
investment. This issue really becomes complex when magnitude of capital 
deployed  in a sector is compared with wages and surplus value yield. No one denies 
the  historically horrible genocidal treatment of the colonial or former 
colonials at  the hands of imperialism; the role of the ideology of white  
superiority/chauvinism etc. 
 
Simply because Lenin deployed certain terms and concepts that were accurate  
in the era he lived, does not mean these terms and concept retain the same  
validity 90 years later. 
 
"Labor lieutenants" of the capitalist class. I like that term and concept,  
which is not to say I am prepared to open a discussion on De Leon and 
Lassalle's  Iron Law of Wages. 
 
WL. 
 
 
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