Left-Critic Consciousness and a Right Kind of Worker

If we’re going to criticize trade-union consciousness, we should do the same for “left-critic consciousness,” which too often privileges a “right kind” of worker.

“As for the concrete policy of national socialism towards the working class during the rise of fascism, it has to be recognized that from 1928, although it attacked the political organizations, it spared the trade unions.” So writes Nicos Poulantzas in Fascism and Dictatorship. And why did the fascists spare the trade unions, even supporting major strik…