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Originally Posted by ClassWarrior  So if unions are an instrument of the ruling class, then what effective means do the poor and the working class have to effectively fight back in the class war that is being waged against them? I see a strategy of divide and conquor on the part of the ruling class and I can also see where unions might be an instrument of divide and conquor rather than accomplishing unity. The poor and the working class must be united and their can be no way that a strategy of divide and conquor can succeed. If the poor and the working class cannot unite, they will be crushed in the class war. Right now, the working class and the poor are being decimated and are losing this war. | I'm not saying unions are instruments of the ruling class. They're instruments of the working class, but I'm just saying that they operate within the confines of the existing social conditions, and those social conditions are set up by the ruling class. All they basically are, are organizations of workers that demand certain things from the ruling class and continue to reinforce the bourgeoisie as the ruling class (I've never heard a union ask for abolition of classes). And so long as there are classes there will be class antagonisms, and inevitably poverty, exploitation, and so on.
The only effective means the poor and the working class (proletariat) have is their force in numbers. I mean, tag on a name you want; revolution, 'democratic revolution' (undoubtedly more politically correct), or forcible overthrow of existing social conditions (as Marx puts it); it's the only means by which class antagonisms can end. "If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, then have faith; if you want to be a disciple of truth, then search" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.72 |