In Australia, socialists have responded to the threat of factory closures by calling for nationalisation of the affected enterprise or industry. See for example:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/why-bhp-should-be-nationalised ________________________________ From: marxmail@groups.io <marxmail@groups.io> on behalf of hari kumar <hari6.ku...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, 19 May 2024 10:26 PM To: marxmail@groups.io <marxmail@groups.io> Subject: Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's Hello Mark: Re: "But there are US jobs at stake, it's a presidential election year, and I support the EV tariffs, particularly as the UAW is aggressively organizing southern US car plants." The thing about protectionism and jobs in the domestic market of the imperial power is tricky - is it not? I think that my problems with it are: i) It treats the buying working mass, as workers who in some way are considered to "belong" to the domestic imperial powers; ii) It subjects them - usually anyway - to unrestricted gouging from foreign importers who would exert competitive pricing on that domestic market. Indeed I think I saw some articles warning exactly of this imminent shift. iii) Usually at the same time as the imperial powers close down their "own domestic market", they are demanding free entry of their own goods into colonial-type countries. iv) Ultimately it helps recruit the working class into the mentality of the imperial capitalists. Does it not? It dilutes the perspective of the working-class vs capitalists class warfare. I certainly understand the matter of unemployment rise potentially if factories close down in the domestic home market. The message has to involve pointing out that the capitalists gain - but not necessarily the workers if prices go up; and that the central issue is not jobs under capitalism, but moving to the socialist revolution. I realise this can be labelled as glib. But while the TU movement moves in this type of economist thinking, is this what the socialist movement should do? Just my tuppence worth anyway. Be well, H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30412): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30412 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106146595/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
