09-10-2012, 05:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2012, 05:56 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Unions have been greatly weakened by all the austerity in the last 25+ years, although perhaps their weakening should be more attributed to firing or dismissal of members who were more radical. Back when I was a Democrat in the late 1990's-mid 2000's, and a Social-Democrat, in around early 2010, I supported unions pretty strongly.
But ever since moving further to the left and becoming radicalized, I no longer do. I respect what they accomplished for the working class coming out of the Industrial Revolution era, but they have really lost touch with their roots and they are now merely a pacifying tool much in the same way that the welfare state is. In short, they are ineffective in the long run, since they try to reconcile the interests of both labor and capital - materially impossible.
But ever since moving further to the left and becoming radicalized, I no longer do. I respect what they accomplished for the working class coming out of the Industrial Revolution era, but they have really lost touch with their roots and they are now merely a pacifying tool much in the same way that the welfare state is. In short, they are ineffective in the long run, since they try to reconcile the interests of both labor and capital - materially impossible.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)