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.

  • 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.