For General Motors Workers Now Striking–Class Warfare
“Class warfare” is a slur used nearly exclusively by threatened corporate and other deep-pocket interests and their elected and media mouthpieces to dodge substantive debate when the middle-, working-classes, and the poor assert their economic, political, and legal interests and rights and have found strong, persistent, unequivocal voices to articulate their needs, demands, and goals.
09/17/2019 @ 2:33 pm
…for the GM strikers.
09/17/2019 @ 3:00 pm
Class warfare is the label used by the wealthy when the poor object to their continuously waging it.
09/17/2019 @ 9:57 pm
The American Revolution was the culmination and confluence of British class warfare and the Enlightenment….
09/18/2019 @ 9:11 am
I recall a freshman-year prof at Penn arguing for a semester that ours was a political rebellion and not a class revolution bc the economic relations among the people here never were altered much by that war and bc the men who fomented that rebellion against the Brits were of the same economic status as those they rebelled against. I have always thought that he was right; and our subsequent history bear him out.
09/18/2019 @ 10:19 am
He’s right. The American Revolution and the Civil War were really about the same thing: Rich guys objecting to other people fucking with their money. In the case of the Revolution, it was about taxes and also about attempts by the British to monopolize trade by law. In the case of the Civil War, slavery was ridiculously profitable. I’ve learned more about that recently and what I’ve learned makes me more in favor of reparations. Records indicate that slaves were more productive in cotton fields than modern workers are. Why? Because of abuse: slaves worked insanely hard out of fear. What’s surprising here is that the North, particularly the Northeast where the mills were, were so anti slavery when they made money on cheap cotton for their mills.