Re: [Marxism] Blow to Amazon as Seattle socialist looks to have triumphed in key vote | US news | The Guardian
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. * It occurs to me that this is one of many issues of its kind, where what we push for is well beyond what capital can put up with and which resonates with a large section of the population in all its permutations. Setting up an exacerbation of contradiction which can only favor workers in its effects. We know this, but it's a reminder that the world is teeming with such issues, and it's the type of fight where reformism has an appropriate place, in dismantling rather than buoying capital. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/08/how-big-tech-is-dragging-us-towards-the-next-financial-crash. Louis Proyect wrote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/09/seattle-amazon-kshama-sawant-socialist-elections - Interesting that one of the primary issues in this race was Sawant's full-on leadership in the fight for a head tax, a tax which would have funded public housing in a city with the third largest homeless population in the nation (after NYC and LA), a per-employee tax on large corporations which would have come down on Amazon in particular. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/05/amazon-seattle-councilwoman-kshama-sawant-re-election-bid. So Jeff Bezos threatens to take his company, which has a virtual lock-down and concentration of power in the retail online shopping business, out of Seattle and let Seattle voters stew in their Commie juices. We'll see a lot of that, I'd think, and the interesting thing here is that it's so transparent - if the media play it at all. Homelessness may finally become an issue that can no longer be ignored, with real estate billionaire Trump entering with club feet and advocating the equivalent of confinement in 19th century poor houses in LA, in the context of housing shortage, rising rental prices and real estate wealth, evictions, especially of homeless single mothers with "bothersome" children who are the main victims in this. There is a national reporting agency, according to Matt Desmond in his book "Evicted", which property managers subscribe to, which reports on evictions everywhere. So if you've been evicted in one region of the country you're poison all over. It may be the right issue at the right time. It feeds into people's growing sense of insecurity and injustice, a great preponderance of new jobs being part-time, low-end, temporary, without benefits, and it just might contribute to a sense of our common identity. Especially to younger workers, those most closely affected, who have as a cohort been reluctant and largely cynical about prospects of resistance, for too long. _ 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
Re: [Marxism] Blow to Amazon as Seattle socialist looks to have triumphed in key vote | US news | The Guardian
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. * Louis Proyect wrote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/09/seattle-amazon-kshama-sawant-socialist-elections Interesting that one of the primary issues in this race was Sawant's full-on leadership in the fight for a head tax, a tax which would have funded public housing in a city with the third largest homeless population in the nation (after NYC and LA), a per-employee tax on large corporations which would have come down on Amazon in particular. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/05/amazon-seattle-councilwoman-kshama-sawant-re-election-bid. So Jeff Bezos threatens to take his company, which has a virtual lock-down and concentration of power in the retail online shopping business, out of Seattle and let Seattle voters stew in their Commie juices. We'll see a lot of that, I'd think, and the interesting thing here is that it's so transparent - if the media play it at all. Homelessness may finally become an issue that can no longer be ignored, with real estate billionaire Trump entering with club feet and advocating the equivalent of confinement in 19th century poor houses in LA, in the context of housing shortage, rising rental prices and real estate wealth, evictions, especially of homeless single mothers with "bothersome" children who are the main victims in this. There is a national reporting agency, according to Matt Desmond in his book "Evicted", which property managers subscribe to, which reports on evictions everywhere. So if you've been evicted in one region of the country you're poison all over. It may be the right issue at the right time. It feeds into people's growing sense of insecurity and injustice, a great preponderance of new jobs being part-time, low-end, temporary, without benefits, and it just might contribute to a sense of our common identity. Especially to younger workers, those most closely affected, who have as a cohort been reluctant and largely cynical about prospects of resistance, for too long. _ 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
Re: [Marxism] Blow to Amazon as Seattle socialist looks to have triumphed in key vote | US news | The Guardian
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. * The thing that amazes me about the reaction of Amazon is that the actual IMPACT of whatever the Seattle city council passes would be NEGLIGIBLE when it comes to the giant's bottom line -- so what's going on? I think it's the same issue as the general "cry-baby' billionaires demonstrate. They don't just want to SUCCEED and become unbelievably wealthy -- they want to be LOVED and PRAISED for doing it!!! And when they don't get the praise they throw tantrums like that guy Cooperman who wrote the famous letter to Obama back in 2011 (year???) -- and who just came out with something shorter attacking Elizabeth Warren --- That seems to be why Bloomberg wants to get into the race I guess the human brain is beyond understanding no matter what the Behavioral Psychologists assert (!!!) _ 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] Blow to Amazon as Seattle socialist looks to have triumphed in key vote | US news | The Guardian
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. * https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/09/seattle-amazon-kshama-sawant-socialist-elections _ 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