End of Dignity
To watch the labor leaders crawl all over each other to be the first to endorse Obama is the culmination of a long, disgusting process of accommodation and capitulation. The total loss of dignity takes awhile. To hear the excuses: "What choice do we have?" We will keep his feet to the fire, He has done some good things, blah blah, you just wish you had a tape recording of every such endorsement since Jimmy Carter. Begging for scraps and smiling all the while. They made their bed and now they get to sleep in it. One wonders just how many rank and file workers will be out knocking on doors for Democrats? How about teachers? Verizon workers?
Interesting piece in the Atlantic called Our Market Obsession. Especially poignant cause Ben Bernanke is celebrated on the cover! In it Harvard communitarian Michael Sandel (Liberalism and the Limits of Justice) bemoans the fact that "markets and market forces have come to govern our lives", what I and others have called an inverted totalitarianism. He worries that in a society where everything is for sale, a qualitative shift happens within a moral order, a "corrosive tendency" which "might also corrupt the meaning of citizenship".
This is obviously a reply to the Republican candidates and their market fundamentalism and also to the recent crisis of capitalism. The tea party is freaked about tyranny of the bureaucrats but is fine that free choice now means Coke or Pepsi. Sandel wants us to think about the harm in turning human beings such as children or slaves into commodities but interestingly finds nothing troubling about a person selling their labor power. He talks about rights and duties but we know every fine is just a cost and everyone has their price. He can't explain how a market economy turns into a market society. His only remedy is a "debate" but admits our "public discourse" has been drained of moral and civic energy. Bit of a dilemma!
Another good read is the novel Resistance by Barry Lopez. Ostensibly a "political" work, he mentions a war on terror gone amok and a government/business alliance a couple of times but leaves you hanging as to actual forms of resistance. Mostly it is psycho-social-spiritual explorations and it is imbued with wisdom and beautiful prose. He is coming to Missoula next week for a talk and I guarantee folks will come out. I wish he was a little less mystical and a little more political.
posted by troutsky @ 1:03 PM
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So what exactly is this "dignity" these labor so-called "leaders" seem to have misplaced? Are you maybe starting to catch on that these fucking jackals never represented workers to begin with? The only thing they represent is their own place at the table and their own piece of the pie in the form of labor pensions they raid on behalf of organized crime, which here should be defined as including but not necessarily limited to officials and bureaucrats of the Democrat Party. What's new here Troutsky?
If there ever is a genuine bona fide labor movement it would by necessity entail actual workers rising up and stringing these crooks up by the balls, dousing them with gasoline, and setting their asses ablaze, along with every Democrat who's ripped them off over the years.
Yeah, I went there.
Troutsky you should seriously consider doing stand up comedy. In your workers paradises actual workers have zero right as the State owns the plants and runs the Union. This is why actual workers reject your death cult and run at the first opportunity.
This is usually the part where Prof
Tarzan waxes off about false consciousness idiocy. The better question is why don't commies in the USA just leave if its so better
elsewhere.
Labor allowed political criminals to hijack their unions. Unions exist to protect the rights of members and to collectively bargain
contracts. A perfect example of the
damage your kind inflicts is the wasted foreign ploicy efforts and antisemitic of Jewish faculty in the UK. The fact that budget cuts and jobs were being cut did not concern the criminal contingent.
Why don't you visit Hugo before his time runs out? Only idiots will
mourn his wasted life.
A perfect example of the
damage your kind inflicts is the wasted foreign policy efforts and antisemitic of Jewish faculty in the UK. The fact that budget cuts and jobs were being cut did not concern the criminal contingent.
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Can someone put a propositional calculus on that and tell me what the hell Beak is talking about.
Maybe you can explain it with additional clarity, Beak.
Patrick: Take a Zanax and read my next post.
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