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the AFL-CIA is not merely some "larger group". it's a business union, sanctioned by the state and its laws to be labor brokers for capitalism. it's been fully integrated into the economic infrastructure of international capital since the 1940s (leading the way by imposing no-strike pledges during the second inter-imperialist world war). the lazy analysis is from you SOT, refusing to understand the actual lived history of organized labor in the united states and in its satellites. the AFL-CIA isn't even a pretend radical union federation. but this level of entryism is exactly what NEFAC's strategy was during its pathetic lifespan; they always aimed to somehow magically radicalize existing business union chapters through the injection of allegedly anarchist activists. pro-capitalist trade unions will never be turned into anti-capitalist formations, not even if one dickhead captures the leadership of the Vermont bureaucracy. and even if they did turn one state formation into a successfully anti-capitalist bureaucracy, the remaining 49 state federations would certainly not go along. every attempt to influence the direction of the national bureaucracy has been quashed by the big bosses (all corrupt scumbags in the pockets of Democratic political machines). once the CIO successfully purged its ranks of anyone suspected of being a Communist, trade unions have historically been on the side of the bosses during labor crises. you can google it. real radicals are rare in the unions because unions are anti-radical, not because "it's hard". troll harder.