[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

A "Wobbly" was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and were properly of the "anarcho-syndicalist" persusasion.

Which just goes to show that if you wait long enough, everything comes back in style. Seems like the anarchists of the early 20th century would be right at home with today's "anti-globalist" crowd. Seems like the anti-globalists aren't precisely sure who they're pissed off at, they just know they're might pissed off.

[willyboyishere]

I give the Wobblies lots more credit than that, and I don't think they'd feel at all "at home" with today's snotty-nosed anti-gkobalist crowd. I think that was implicit in Corn's article, that there is an instinctive pulling back among legitimate leftists and pacifists from these groups who have successfully hijacked this immediate historical moment of the (still impending) "War on Iraq". The Wobblies were part of their own historical moment and a great deal was going on across the world, including the beginnings of
the Russian Revolution, which was the lodestar for decades for millions of people concerned with "social justice". Of course they were deluded, of course they worshiped a "God that Failed", but they were the first generation and hence made the biggest and most embarrassing mistakes, and were the first to learn from their mistakes (some did, some didn't.). The motley crews as described by Corn in this article haven't learned anything from the present or the past---they virtually have NO sense of history, or any appreciation of the fate of the kind of ideas that history has shown us wind up on the proverbial "ash-heap of discarded notions".