222:, the Organization as a whole remained critical to unions and a significant tendency within the Organization remained skeptical of membership involving themselves in trade union politics. As one of the Organization's most experienced workplace organizers, and a member whose rank-and-file coworkers encouraged him to run as a shop steward at the Harvester plant, Goldfield expressed enthusiasm in greater union involvement, a decision for which certain membership within the Organization criticized him.
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In 1973, Goldfield, who felt that this criticism led to his marginalization within the
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where he sought to engage in workplace organizing as a part of the
Sojourner Truth Organization's political work. At the International Harvester plant, Goldfield was involved in establishing a dissident caucus within the plant's union chapter organized by the
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to its theoretical positions on party formation. After the release of the paper, Goldfield and his supporters eventually departed the
Sojourner Truth Organization, resulting in the Organization's first split.
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greater role of leadership ... To the extent that it is a call to leadership, the communist should respond not by taking the steward's position but by creating an alternative to it."
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politics in the United States have been stifled by racism. Further, Goldfield claims that the failure of
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