me: > Are you saying that sabotage is a good thing? Shane: > Workers call it "work to rule." <
That's backward. Work to rule is not sabotage; it's obeying a voluntarily agreed-upon contract (which should be a good thing from a NC perspective). It's employers who call it "sabotage." They tend to think of any interference with the attainment of maximum profit in those terms. Obviously, whether sabotage is a good or bad thing depends on the situation. We should also remember that -- as Veblen pointed out -- that sabotage can be a capitalist tactic. J.A. Hobson quotes Veblen: >“The holding-company and the merger, together with the interlocking directorate, and presently the voting trust, were the ways and means by which the banking community took over the strategic regulation of the key industries, and by way of that avenue also the control of the industrial system at large” (Absentee Ownership, p.338). This financial control was visualized by Veblen as involving a policy of industrial “sabotage”, a deliberate restriction of the productivity of capital and labor in order to keep prices and profits higher.< from: http://www.marxists.org/archive/hobson/1937/03/veblen.htm -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
