I'll just note that one big way unions like the AFL-CIO checked the power of left-wing intellectuals on the Democratic party by rabidly supporting the Vietnam War.pic.twitter.com/ruV2dz9jPL
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I'll just note that one big way unions like the AFL-CIO checked the power of left-wing intellectuals on the Democratic party by rabidly supporting the Vietnam War.pic.twitter.com/ruV2dz9jPL
Unions were not of a single mind on the Vietnam war. Even while Meaney had official AFL-CIO support, many large internationals -- UAW, AFSCME, ACTWU, Meatcutters -- were opposed. Also smaller left unions -- UE, 1199, District 65, ILWU.
I haven't studied this question close enough to be very confident on locating a date, especially given the challenges of figuring out what would constitute a position of the journal when it didn't have editorials as such. 1/
What is clear is that by 1963, Howe is active in SANE, which was founded as a peace movement organization that was broader than pacifism, and was opposed to the war. 2/
In Harrington bio, Isserman writes of 1966 meeting on Vietnam in Rustin's apartment, in which he says that Howe had given up "earlier illusions about a 'third force'." The Buttingers, who supported Dissent, had argued that position in its pages. 3/
My sense was the Harrington personally always opposed the war, despite what people say, but did not take publicly stronger anti-war positions shared by democratic leftists. Simplification but I think accurate.
And which leftwing intellectuals were still supporting the war in 1968?
Shachtman and his circle.
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