11-17-2012, 12:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2012, 12:08 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Again, capitalism, not unions, is the problem. Unions exist because capitalism does, in an attempt (if a futile one) to give the workers some protection.
It was purely on Hostess, because the profits for the multi-gazillionaire CEO's and shareholders of Hostess are more important than the table scraps the employees get, in a capitalist system. Unions have little relevance here in the big picture of things, because they too, like governments, are subservient to the interests of private capital.
You don't get rid of the unions or the welfare state, you get rid of the material conditions that cause and necessitate them in the first place: capitalism. Much in the same way you don't try to cure cancer with pain killers.
It was purely on Hostess, because the profits for the multi-gazillionaire CEO's and shareholders of Hostess are more important than the table scraps the employees get, in a capitalist system. Unions have little relevance here in the big picture of things, because they too, like governments, are subservient to the interests of private capital.
You don't get rid of the unions or the welfare state, you get rid of the material conditions that cause and necessitate them in the first place: capitalism. Much in the same way you don't try to cure cancer with pain killers.
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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 (addressing the bourgeois)
"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 (addressing the bourgeois)