General Baker is an old school labor activist in Detroit. Check this video out…it runs a little long but it is worth it.
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Great work Doc, on a personal note, My son who works for ford with less than 10years senority was offered a buyout (ford truck plant) .I advise him not to take it, at present, the truck plant has hired new workers at a fraction of the salary and no benefits.
Thanks for this hipping me to General Baker’s words, Les.
I wrote down my response in a blog post.
Les:
It looks like the trackback I sent (Maxambit on April 24, 2007 4:39 pm) before I wrote my previous comment (E.C. Hopkins on April 24, 2007 5:44 pm) worked. I wasn’t sure it would. In the future, I’ll just hit you with a trackback when one of your posts inspires one of mine.
You may want to delete my 4:39 Maxambit comment and this one for aesthetic purposes.
Hey Lester,
Thanks much for that video. I wasn’t aware of General Baker so it’s good to add to my own personal knowledge of the activists and movers in my own community. I will say – and I think I’ve said before in a post – that I disagree with his position in support of those who disrupted the school board meeting by throwing grapes. I’m not a fan of the school board, but I continue to think that sister was out of line. I also think that if anyone knows how Detroit is supposed to keep all the schools open – and paid for – while we’re losing nearly 10,000 taxpaying Detroit residents every year, then I’d like to hear that suggestion. General talks about how horrible these closures are. Agreed. But if you wanna see horrible, try running all those schools with no money.
Anyway, enough of my running off at the mouth. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for the video Doc.
I did a study group on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers some years ago which Gen. Baker sat on the Executive Board of. That is a guy who has certainly paid his revolutionary dues and he’s still ticking.
I saw him speak here in Kansas City at a May 1st Labor Day, and while I don’t know how I feel about the theory that drives the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, I think they are trying answer a difficult and important question: How do the technological developments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries affect both the theory and practice of revolutionaries? Especially Marxist revolutionaries who base their thinking on the labor theory of value and the idea that the working class holds the levers of power in society by being at the point of production when the working class at the point of production is slowly disappearing.
Good stuff, the guy’s a legend in my eyes. He and Ken Cockrell are my biggest Detroit heroes. Oh yeah and Cecil Fielder.
From the Archives: General Baker at the League of Revolutionaries http://t.co/b9hXUt1D