On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 07:22 PM, Travis Reid wrote: > > The key words are "democratic rights" of which there is little in China, > where workers cannot organize and withhold production for better pay and > working conditions.
True. But it is only in the advanced capitalist democracies that workers have had the (circuumscribed) right to organize independent unions and to strike. Communist states, dating back to the Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky, banned strikes and regarded the unions as adjuncts whose purpose was to help educate and mobilize the workers to move forward towards socialism. They were criticized from the left by anarcho-syndicalists and council communists for prohibiting independent trade unionism. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30437): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30437 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] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
