Labor unions today: "we'll help you organize and take the legal steps to get fair treatment."

Labor unions in 1912: "take this rifle. If your boss doesn't comply with our demands, shoot him and blow up his mansion."

One of these two approaches gets immediate results.

  • FidelCastro [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I hope the neoliberals successfully do that to the pigs. A weakened state apparatus is useful for us.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      It's weaker for individual cops. I don't know if it's meaningfully weaker for the capitalists.

      To quote Jay Gould: "I Can Hire Half the Working Class To Fight the Other Half"

      Hardly a victory for Leftism if NextDoor starts farming out the job of state-sanctioned violence to insecure racist middle-class suburbanites.