that’s not remotely true. The union movement is quite robust and actively serves a real need. The only thing that could actually kill the union movement would be a fully communist society and unions subsequently becoming redundant
The government shutting down a strike only worked because the union capitulated. It worked because when the government said no, they listened.
The rail workers could have held a strike anyway, legal consequences be damned. The government would likely escalate in retaliation: strikers would be jailed and potentially forced back into that labor while incarcerated. Strikers could then give in to the government’s demands or further escalate on their own end. This could take the form of sabotage, armed conflict, or other methods of dissent. This is the history of labor struggles and it has often been a bloody history.
At the end of the day, it becomes a matter of how desperate each group is. If the risk posed by the government retaliating is greater than your desperation to improve conditions, then workers are more likely to back down. This doesn’t address the consciousness of the workers though. They hold the true source of power (labor) in this neverending struggle and have the most to gain by taking action to exert that power over those who wish to exploit them.
Part of the problem is that taking revolutionary action isn’t easy and it’s much more comfortable to capitulate anywhere along the road to changing these dynamics.
What is to be done? Educate yourself and those around you. Organize yourselves against your oppressors and prepare for the fight ahead. Take action and persevere by supporting one another in this struggle.
The only thing that authority respects is a greater authority. The ones in power maintain their authority because we allow them to maintain that authority. Nothing happens without the labor of the masses and when they act in solidarity, nothing has the power to stop them.
It is not a shock whatsoever. Religion isn’t called the Opiods of the masses because it serves no purpose. Surgery before Opiod derived medicines was insanely painful, and Opoids completely changed that and revolutionized surgical practices. While at the same time destroying countless lifes due to its addictive qualities. The analogy isnt dismissing the power of Religion or God. More so contextualizing its place in society and trying to find a healthy relationship in stead of a toxic one.
God doesn’t exist.
And in a few more decades neither will unions. I’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad.
that’s not remotely true. The union movement is quite robust and actively serves a real need. The only thing that could actually kill the union movement would be a fully communist society and unions subsequently becoming redundant
Sorry if this is a stupid question.
What do we do about goverments simply shutting them down? In my country the rail workers needed to strike, and then congress said no.
The government shutting down a strike only worked because the union capitulated. It worked because when the government said no, they listened.
The rail workers could have held a strike anyway, legal consequences be damned. The government would likely escalate in retaliation: strikers would be jailed and potentially forced back into that labor while incarcerated. Strikers could then give in to the government’s demands or further escalate on their own end. This could take the form of sabotage, armed conflict, or other methods of dissent. This is the history of labor struggles and it has often been a bloody history.
At the end of the day, it becomes a matter of how desperate each group is. If the risk posed by the government retaliating is greater than your desperation to improve conditions, then workers are more likely to back down. This doesn’t address the consciousness of the workers though. They hold the true source of power (labor) in this neverending struggle and have the most to gain by taking action to exert that power over those who wish to exploit them.
Part of the problem is that taking revolutionary action isn’t easy and it’s much more comfortable to capitulate anywhere along the road to changing these dynamics.
What is to be done? Educate yourself and those around you. Organize yourselves against your oppressors and prepare for the fight ahead. Take action and persevere by supporting one another in this struggle.
The only thing that authority respects is a greater authority. The ones in power maintain their authority because we allow them to maintain that authority. Nothing happens without the labor of the masses and when they act in solidarity, nothing has the power to stop them.
Wait how do you know?
Let me rephrase. “There is no evidence that god exists”. Better?
No.
Somehow the reddit athiest gang is even worse here lol
The only thing that communists hate more than the West is the idea that people can obey a higher power than the state. Is it really much of a shock?
It is not a shock whatsoever. Religion isn’t called the Opiods of the masses because it serves no purpose. Surgery before Opiod derived medicines was insanely painful, and Opoids completely changed that and revolutionized surgical practices. While at the same time destroying countless lifes due to its addictive qualities. The analogy isnt dismissing the power of Religion or God. More so contextualizing its place in society and trying to find a healthy relationship in stead of a toxic one.
Can you and the tankies just have a cage match on another instance the rest of us can defederate from? Pretty please?
You are saying most people on this site are communists?