Very interesting article! Monthly Review has always been one of my favorite journals.
C. Horgan On 9/7/20 at 14:23, Michael Yates wrote: Here is a link to an essay I wrote, published in this month's Monthly Review. I welcome comments. https://monthlyreview.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-economic-depression-and-the-black-lives-matter-protests/?fbclid=IwAR0dEX-U2PvXV1NTcg8HoW5S7wJ8keUsXFkCTT_lWv6vhXHmaBvg_JHA3gA "Finally, there is a more subtle matter, but of utmost importance. Today’s big unions, some of which waged heroic struggles in the past to the benefit of millions of workers and their families (mine among them), have no interest in workers’ control of production, aimed at producing use values. They have a great deal of money and property, and this could be put to good use along these lines. Unions in the past have built working-class housing developments, hospitals (the famous miners’ hospitals, for example), vacation resorts for members, even schools for workers. Why not do this now with farms, processing plants, grocery stores, clean vehicles for public transit, high-quality and inexpensive housing, and much more? It seems that unions (the UAW, for example), other than being regularly mired in corruption, are as dedicated to the reproduction of wage labor as are the unions of cops and prison guards to the reproduction of a criminal class. How can those who direct labor organizations just stand by while a Trump appointee dismisses workers as “human capital” and claims that they are dying to get back to work? Well, what kind of work? Work that is mostly unfit for human beings? Or work that we direct ourselves, producing for society and not for the wealthy?" [https://monthlyreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Demonstrators-gesture-as-they-attend-a-protest-against-police-brutality-and-the-death-in-Minneapolis-police-custody-of-George-Floyd-in-Frankfurt-Germany-June-6-2020.jpeg]<https://monthlyreview.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-economic-depression-and-the-black-lives-matter-protests/?fbclid=IwAR0dEX-U2PvXV1NTcg8HoW5S7wJ8keUsXFkCTT_lWv6vhXHmaBvg_JHA3gA> Monthly Review | COVID-19, Economic Depression, and the Black Lives Matter Protests<https://monthlyreview.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-economic-depression-and-the-black-lives-matter-protests/?fbclid=IwAR0dEX-U2PvXV1NTcg8HoW5S7wJ8keUsXFkCTT_lWv6vhXHmaBvg_JHA3gA> Crisis reveals the fault lines in society. COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on our health and killing us in large numbers, bringing with it the most massive and steep economic collapse in U.S. history. Then… monthlyreview.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1303): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1303 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76692666/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
