Sam Gindin on “Thinking as a Class”

Sam Gindin on “Thinking as a Class”

If what we were saying to workers in a workplace was in the 1950s and 60s, you didn’t actually have to think about anybody else. If you were an auto worker, you were probably strong and you could win things for yourself. And what a lot of auto workers learned is we don’t actually need anybody. They didn’t learn that this was a temporary situation. If you’re just going to fight things on your own, you’re going to lose. So what’s the lesson? The l…