[Marxism] GP entrails [In defense of Harrington and American Menshevism]

[Lance Murdoch]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
<bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll be in the DSA, in the cess pool of the Democratic Party, in the
> mainstream unions, where the working people are, until you comrades can
> prove me wrong and build a viable alternative for working people and then
> I'll apologize and happily join you.

The mainstream unions?  The unionization rate in the United States for
non-government workers is 7.5%.  92.5% of private workers are
non-unionized ( http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm ).  The
"mainstream unions" are not where "the working people are".  Who is
being starry eyed here?