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Union memberships can and should simply take control and provide services directly to the public, cutting out the State, as well as shareholders, as middlemen.
H'mmmm.
That challenges the domination of The Top whether that "Top" is a union president, the president of a bank, the leaders of the Labour Party, & so forth. Any local union trying to "take control" will find the first and third of the previous list coming down on them like a ton of bricks. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I believe that the UK 'reforms' being pursued with such vigour by the Coalition government are going to have unintended consequences......
And note I was not referring to Labour or Unions - but to Labour and Union members. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
Union and Party members are only members until the national secretary yanks their cards, making them UnPersons. The kind of petty-assed shit that goes down when the peasants are revolting. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The local members lose as well. They lose the advantages belonging to a national organization such as money and news exposure. And the externalities of solidarity, fraternity, & all that Left Wing socialist-hippy stuff. (He wrote with self-deprecating self-mockery.)
And the Right Wing can put out a anti-campaign based around "Even their Union thinks they are wackos." She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Recall when the Anti-Slavery Whigs in the US were purged from the Whig Party, and it was the Whig Party that collapsed as a result. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Either the Union leaders facilitate what the members wish to do, or the Unions wither on the vine. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
As is known, many neocons were former Marxists. They certainly preserved the discipline! And they harness other method of Communists: seize the mass media. Lenin's revolution took the telegraph first, Fidel Casttro stared on the radio, and now we have Foxnews and talk radios...
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