“Every great cause begins as a movement,” wrote Eric Hoffer, “becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” It is fitting that the “longshoreman philosopher,” a working-class intellectual, penned the words then that perfectly captures the sad course of a working-class movement today.
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