Oh God, oh shit, I said I wasn't going to do it. I said I wasn't going to start a China struggle session. Already getting flashbacks to the Discord.

But something just doesn't sit right with me and wanted to get some clarification here...

My question is this: why does China ban labor organizing/unions?

Is this yikes/intentional/actually a good thing?

(Yeah, I do know that labor unions are not always unequivocally good and sometimes they act more like middle management than as representatives of the workers... but democratizing the workplace seems like a no-brainer for any socialist project.)

Thoughts?

    • Sidereal223 [he/him]
      3·
      4 years ago

      People in social media were complaining that some of the actions of community volunteers were going too far. I had a video example from Weibo of one such volunteer harassing another dude just for wearing shorts. Unfortunately, I just checked and it seems that the account associated with it has gone private.

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        So in other words, there's no actual institutional opposition to these community organizations.

        • anthm17 [he/him]
          2·
          4 years ago

          or they organized some community organizations to help deal with the epidemic and someone went too far.

      • PavelBureOfficial [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Very well could've been chengguan or people LARPing as chengguan. They're known assholes in every city.