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u/IllusiveObserver · 1 pointr/politics

> That is impossible without violence. You are making massive assumptions here. You described the process as:
> Workers strike
> The owner is unable to find new workers, and the business fails
> The workers collective purchase the business
> What if the workers actually like their job and have no desire to strike?
> What if the business owner can find people who are willing to replace the striking workers?
> What if the business owner cannot find new workers, but he chooses then to sell his business to someone else?

Read about the labor movement in the US between 1880 and 1950. It will answer any questions you have regarding how this could play out when we have a free market. Here is a great book on the subject. It will fundamentally change the way you look at the current economic atmosphere.

> There is no reason any of what you described could not take place even today in America. I know that you think that "stringent anti-union laws that the state enforces" prevent this from happening, but still, people are free to form labor unions. People are free to strike. People are free to form cooperatives.

You may not know what union legislation looks like then. Here is the original union legislation of the 1930's. It was responsible for protecting unions from their employers, though it also lead to a few anti-union policies. What I would really like you to read is this act. That act was one of the most repressive acts passed in the history of the US. It has only been added upon by this in several states.

If you genuinely want a free market, you're going to have to accept that fossil fuel workers striking could shut down the entire economy if they wanted to if they saw fit. Are you willing to accept that?

>The Spanish civil war took place under a very unique set of circumstances, and it is absurd to use it as model for the development of capitalism. Most importantly, it violates your claim that this process is non-violent, because all the collectivized property was seized by force.

There are details about it, sure. I'm just saying this is what will naturally happen in a economic atmosphere that is more free. Violence in class antagonisms is natural when workers feel empowered, because of private property disputes. But the fact is that most private property exists in the first place because of violence (i.e., get off my land or I'll shoot).


u/jak_laka · 1 pointr/norge

Det er mange gode enkelt verk der ute, og takk for tipset fant mye interessant der, men jeg skulle ønske at det fantes et stort verket som dekket hele historien. Slik som amerikanerne har i History of the Labor Movement in the United States.

u/Pistchi0 · 1 pointr/SeattleWA

You're opposing basic labor organization and regulations. Uber is exploiting a gap in labor law and market regulations by making a profit off of "independent contractors," while footing all of the risk to their drivers. This is why labor law originally existed - to make the managers/owners of capital responsible for the risks and conditions faced by employees. Here's a good primer on the history of labor movements and the origins of unions in the U.S. if you've never learned about it before.

Kids can consent to working for money, too. That doesn't discredit my analogy whatsoever.

u/Rowsdowered · 1 pointr/socialism

Ginger's The Bending Cross, Foner's volumes of History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Dubofsky's We Shall Be All, and--for primary documents--Kornbluh's Rebel Voices.

All these books cover the period from the rise of the American democratic socialist movement to its fall by 1920. They also present similar rise/fall narratives regarding the Wobbly movement in the United States. From my reading of these texts, I developed some skepticism regarding democratic mobilization for Socialist ends.