Once upon a time the labour movement organised every part of working class life. It was not just political parties and strikes, it was parties, orchestras, night classes, football teams and pensioner's clubs. The labour press would write about labour issues and political struggle but also about entertainmen, sport or hobbies. Later on a proven strategy for recruiting the young for political organisations became to gain a reputation for throwing good parties.
Much has been lost as the established labour movement has accepted the liberal premise that there is one box called "politics", another box called "labour unions" and a third box called "everything else" and that you are somehow breaking the rules by going outside of your assigned box.
Also there's this paper called "Making Friends and Making Out: The Social and Romantic Lives of Young Communists in Chile (1958–1973)" that talks about this topic a bit.
I remember CCK Philosophy talks about this aspect of the SPD part a bit in his recently released '1918 failed German revolution' videos. Talked about the schools, etc. the SPD ran and how there was an entire culture involved with being a part of the SPD and unionism.
The 1980 Soviet movie "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" (a pretty good one, if somewhat socially conservative) has a scene where a state run de-facto dating agency is struggling to keep afloat, because of a lack of either suitable men or women (I forgot which)
The 1980 Soviet movie "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" (a pretty good one, if somewhat socially conservative) has a scene where a state run de-facto dating agency is struggling to keep afloat, because of a lack of either suitable men or women (I forgot which)
I do often wonder if dating was better when unions were strong. Seems like union meetings could be a worthwhile place and time to meet good people.
Once upon a time the labour movement organised every part of working class life. It was not just political parties and strikes, it was parties, orchestras, night classes, football teams and pensioner's clubs. The labour press would write about labour issues and political struggle but also about entertainmen, sport or hobbies. Later on a proven strategy for recruiting the young for political organisations became to gain a reputation for throwing good parties.
Much has been lost as the established labour movement has accepted the liberal premise that there is one box called "politics", another box called "labour unions" and a third box called "everything else" and that you are somehow breaking the rules by going outside of your assigned box.
god damn, this largely describes a life I wish I had, fuck me :sweat:
Retvrn
Have a source on hand? I have a couple of people to send it to
Also there's this paper called "Making Friends and Making Out: The Social and Romantic Lives of Young Communists in Chile (1958–1973)" that talks about this topic a bit.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/abs/making-friends-and-making-out-the-social-and-romantic-lives-of-young-communists-in-chile-19581973/BA17DBB12541ADAF39DC84DD1FDF62EE
I remember CCK Philosophy talks about this aspect of the SPD part a bit in his recently released '1918 failed German revolution' videos. Talked about the schools, etc. the SPD ran and how there was an entire culture involved with being a part of the SPD and unionism.
The 1980 Soviet movie "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" (a pretty good one, if somewhat socially conservative) has a scene where a state run de-facto dating agency is struggling to keep afloat, because of a lack of either suitable men or women (I forgot which)
I could see a comedy where it's both
The 1980 Soviet movie "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" (a pretty good one, if somewhat socially conservative) has a scene where a state run de-facto dating agency is struggling to keep afloat, because of a lack of either suitable men or women (I forgot which)
"suitable" meaning what, in this case?
People who aren't walking red flags (in the non-political sense), creeps, alcoholics, too old, etc.
Not like they were turned away, but nobody wanted to give them a chance.
It's a romantic comedy movie.
fascinating, is there an english dub?
No, but there's a version with English subtitles on YouTube. That's how I watched it.
Where's the link at, Tovarishi?
https://youtu.be/NTWA_7-ld_U
It was the very first result of typing it into the YouTube search bar, but eh
Thank you! Sorry for being an asshole and making you search it up. Now the rest of the site has it, too, though!
married life ain't hard, if you got a union card
a union man has a happy life if he's got a union wife🎶🎵