Re: [Marxism] There Is No Strike Wave in the Private Sector | Joe Burns | Jacobin
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. * Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/06/private-sector-strike-wave-union-strategy This article, with its emphasis on reviving the strike, especially in the "private sector," gets us not one flea-hop closer to any resolution of the barriers to working class organization. Referring to the "private sector" as some kind of monolithic entity is one problem. There are virtually countless divisions within private sector employment and moreover within the working class generally, including the workers whose labor cannot be shipped offshore; and there's the obvious, but completely overlooked in this article, move of capital to cut costs by shipping more and more production jobs to low-wage areas. And what's also blindingly obvious is that this cries out for worker organizing and solidarity globally, not just locally, and an end to pitting national divisions of labor against each other. As far as the author gets is: "isolated groups of workers...will require the support of national unions." There's the long-established, structurally entrenched practice of labor leadership aligning with capital, behind workers' backs and against workers' interests; and as well, the virtually undisguised state support of capital against labor, through repressive labor legislation and stacked mediating bodies set up by government. There's the fact that almost all areas of labor are increasingly subject to automation, artificial intelligence, digitation, unforeseen permutations and spin-offs leading to further ways capital can displace human labor, if and when the cost of labor is perceived to be greater than the cost of the dead labor/constant capital which can replace it. There's the threat that this furthers invidious distinctions among fully-employed, partially employed and unemployed workers, and the threat of increase in the reserve army of labor, adding to the effectiveness with which wages are kept below subsistence, and augmentation of the pool from which labor is easily replaced. There is the undoubted fact that workers in the privileged regions of the world, and within national boundaries, are separated by jealously guarded distinctions from workers in lower-wage areas. This is reinforced by nationalism, racism, anti-immigrant bias, invidious job description and feelings of cultural superiority. It would seem, at least for now with worker power decimated, as if the only discernible way out is through a growing downward spiral of wages in dominant privileged areas toward global wage equalization. There's the growing recognition by capital of its global positioning, and of its need for closer, more sophisticated, more authoritarian combination among segments of world-wide capital - facilitated through international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, WTO, ILO, NAFTA, CAFTA, EU, G7 and G20, instrumentalized UN organizations, Davos, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, World Economic Forum. It does not so much as mention any of these impediments to worker organization, let alone any discussion of the blindingly obvious need to kick over the whole vicious, treacherous, dangerously destructive system of capital accumulation. One thing going for us, which calls for a wholly expanded discussion pro and con, is the diversifying global supply chain, where work stoppage in any sector of these channels can impede over-all profitable production in multiple areas. Another is the shrinking opportunities for profitable return on productive capital entailed in the dwindling market for commodities and services, and the growing spread of cheapened machinery, as an increasingly unemployed and inadequately employed world population can no longer buy these commodities. There's much more wrong with this piece, but the foregoing is a taste of the woeful, sophomoric level of analysis produced here. Kind of appears that this article typifies the orientation of Jacobin. Who vets selection and quality, and who is presently on the board? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Britain in a Tailspin
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[Marxism] Opinion | Are Oman Tanker Attacks Another Gulf of Tonkin? - The New York Times
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[Marxism] There Is No Strike Wave in the Private Sector | Joe Burns | Jacobin
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[Marxism] Bernie Sanders and the New Deal | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Don’t Forget That John Podesta Is An Idiot! | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] Economic growth: a short history of a controversial idea | openDemocracy
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[Marxism] ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery | by Sarah Churchwell | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
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Re: [Marxism] Fighting the far right in Germany (Green Left Weekly)
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[Marxism] Kate Millett and the Iranian revolution - Negar Azimi - Bookforum Magazine
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[Marxism] Columbia law adjunct is latest to leave academe following release of new film on Central Park Five
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[Marxism] Scott Noble's History of resistance
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[Marxism] Oil tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman: Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of one of the attacks - CBS News
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[Marxism] Global Cinema, Global Wounds: Slings, Arrows and Outrageous Fortune at the Movies | Dennis Broe | Culture Matters
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[Marxism] Who Owns the Crusades? | The New Republic
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[Marxism] Russia Joins Gulf States in Coaching Sudan’s Military – LobeLog
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[Marxism] Fighting the far right in Germany (Green Left Weekly)
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[Marxism] Turkey steps up military intervention in Iraq (Green Left Weekly)
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[Marxism] Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype by WILLIAM I. ROBINSON - Science & Society April 2019
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