It seems more and more lately that organized labor is the only viable route for meaningful political change. Recasting the individualistic neoliberal interpretations of social justice in to the context of labor organizing and agitation seems like the right message to be sending right now, and not white-washing reactionary aspects of that history either but explaining how they undermined it.

The challenge in the present day is that this really requires going beyond culture war factions for greater common cause, working with people you may disagree yet have shared material interests with, with the hopes that the effort itself will absolve these barriers and lead to a better class solidarity. I don’t know if this is possible in the US right now with the rise of the fascist impulses on the right, is it possible for the left to acknowledge the structural stresses pushing people in that direction and offer a more appealing solution? The liberal strategy of dismissing those structural causes only seems to be further enabling the right. “An injury to one is an injury to all” may be too radical a notion for this context, and you can bet the bosses are happy about this working class division. I refuse to accept the workers cant find each other again. Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one.