Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
Garneau’s provides a necessary corrective over common views amongst “socialists” that work and politics are two separate spheres in which struggle takes place. Following the wrongheaded opinion of Lenin, who assessed workers as only capable of rising to a level of “trade union consciousness,” these socialists, according to Garneau, “take a surprisingly apolitical view of what goes on in the workplace.”
