Tom Walker wrote:
>
> At 10:00 PM 07/06/01 +0100, Keith Hudson wrote:
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> >>One could reply to and/or complete Reuther's quote, "and the greatest
> >>nemesis of the free individual is the injunction to be a working man."
> >
> >Ah, but he probably wouldn't have gone that far because the last thing
> >trade union leaders (and politicians) want are free individuals.
>
Alas, some workers are oppressed by two exploitive
extractors of surplus-value: the company and the union.
I used to think that the Soviet Union was not a communist country, but
a country run by one big labor union.
A "free market" in which all persons were small farmers, tradespersons,
craftspersons, etc. wouldn't yield much surplus value to anybody.
Isn't that sort of what at least some people initially hoped The United
States of America would be? Weren't the free towns of the late Middle Ages
in Europe something like this?
But does anybody with a mind work for any reason other than in
the hope of some day later if it can't be sooner being able
to stop working and begin living a fully human life? Does anyone
have the quote from John Adams where he said that he did business
so that his children could be doctors and lawyers so that their
children could be mathematicians and philosophers (or something like that)?
+\brad mccormick
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