Im talking about the gulf. Social fascism would be the most apt way to describe them - social democracy, class collaborationist, delineation along ethnic lines, etc. But at the same time, it feels like westerners who might agree on this point would be doing so out of orientalist preconceptions of the gulf rather than on an actual clear understanding. They would be more loathe to call Norway or Sweden a social fascist state. Am I inventing a strawman?

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    But workers under these conditions are absolutely not protected by the labour laws of the countries they work within and they lack any sort of privileges or rights that are afforded to the KSA reserve army of labour proper

    We don't have to imagine what the US would be like because we've seen plenty of historical examples of how the US government has crushed labour movements with military and police brutality, and we already know what CBP/the DHS does to undocumented migrants and refugees.

    This is where it's different imo. US citizens on strike aren't likely to be disappeared en masse into CBP blacksites to be detained indefinitely before being booted into Mexico without any concern for their country of official residence.

    So, it's the undocumented status and lack of citizenship that distinguishes and makes for the revocation of not only the Gulf reserve army of labor's 'appearance of equality as a seller of labor', but even their liberal U.N given rights, at the impunity of the Gulf state...