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I hate to say it right now, but democracy depends on obedience. The question right now: Where does your obedience lie?

Just out in America Magazine: americamagazine.org/politics-s

Matt Noyes

@ntnsndr Always eager to read a new piece of yours!

The On the Waterfront/Salt of the Earth contrast is not great. The collective struggle of ILA members against the mob, at great personal cost, was in no way anti-union. The "labor priests" who supported workers played a key, rebellious, role. And, as Bert Cochran detailed in his book Labor and Communism, the influence of Stalinism in unions like the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers was often harmful to democratic worker self-organization.

@Matt_Noyes That's fair. Though I think it's also important to read Waterfront through the particular context of Kazan's anti-communist testimony. There are some good papers on the comparison, eg: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108