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...Drummond warned that without the intervention of Marxist students, racial issues will stand in the way of the workers' revolution...
...however, workers will bring an end to the domination of leaders like Meany and create a "working class upsurge that will reach and polarize students between the working class and the capitalist class," Drummond said...
...Joseph Drummond said students have to create an alternative to the "trade-union bureaucracy" in order to lead workers, because "working class oppression by itself doesn't make apparent the need for socialism...
...Drummond said the traditional union leadership has in the past been "helping the capitalist class in policing workers," but without an alternative leadership workers will remain loyal to labor leaders like George Meany and continue to be "economically and culturally expropriated...
...Alice Drummond as Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon was articulate, facially expressive, really perfect in the only well-written acting slot in the whole play. She talks glibly about a distant Golden Age when she was young, the air rich with humidity, and her house a more welcome prison. From her current vantage point, she's more like a burlesqued version of Mother Courage, hoarding her mementos, fearing sexual orgies going on in a locked-off room, generally despairing over "these days when dry mouth must kiss dry mouth." When she sinks in quicksand, her passing is no less...