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?

    • volkvulture [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I think in this case it was more about these trade unionists being unnecessarily resistant to the real social & institutional changes that were required for Burkinabe to lift themselves up

      When meritocracy is threatened, it's usually the pampered & out-of-touch eggheads & powerful hierarchical social arrangements of the past that react in these ways